If people have a problem and they don't like the range for BST in this September 15, 2015 update. Than you be please to know that you must mention the name Akihiro Matsui in your post comment because he is the whole reason why this happen. Akihiro Matsui was the same person who nerf Rudra's storm and the skill chain properties. At least he let everyone know ahead of time on what he was doing. When he lower the BST range he said Nothing! nothing at all. He has never play BST because if he did than he knows it doesn't make sense for a BST to be close NM keeping pet alive as well as master alive and who in the fight mind would want to melee along with PET which means feeding NM more TP for dangerous situation "No thank you". Trust are unreliable at this point since they can only be summon once in some content.

Please everyone support BST they need everyone help right now even if you hate it. Try to understand that BST is a solo job and they exist for a very long long time in game. Please do not let the Legend of BST solo for 12 years die out now because FFXI will never make sense again. Akihiro Matsui doesn't know so if we all support we might get range back for bst. The core the problem in FFXI is always been the NM and many NM need adjustment so other job can have a chance.

If Akihiro Matsui decide to go forward with this melee range for BST than he should allow the pet augmented item to work for master as well. So I am praying and hoping he change his mind. :/