BST adjustment did not address the problem, Devs please read

[Ataraxia]

Everyone have faith I hope they read many of our post for some adjustment to BST. I wonder if this was done on purpose to balance bst. The tiger pet seems to have a little longer range than that of Bouncing Bertha pet. Some pet we have to be close to use Ready or maybe the size of pet do matter. Akihiro Matsui you need to stop playing Samurai Tarutaru and start playing BST tarutaru so you can test out this new BST range with their pet. Right now people don't know if this is a bug or something done on purpose to balance BST?

[Sirmarki]

Hi,

I've always fought alongside my pet, its my style of playing. Some people I know have quit because this directly affected the way they play BST.

My main issue is when fighting large mobs. I find I have to run around in circles to get to my pet, and then stand on its head to use ready commands. I'm engaged with the mob in a close combat situation, so this most definitely shouldn't happen.

[Gwydion]

Sad bump.

Any ideas here SE for an actual fix?

[shaduf]

Usually SE are fast to reply, i hope there will be a positive update about BST.

[Jile]

Well, we can continue to hope.

[Jerbob]

Even as a non-BST player I can see how absurd these changes are. Here's hoping you guys all get the fix you rightly deserve.

[Kjara]

Personally I never used BST as a back line job. I used, however, to fight a different mob than what my pet was fighting. In dynamis I'd use my pet to fight summoners away from me so me and the trusts don't get killed by Astral Flow. Or in a thousand other instances, I'd have it take care of aggros I didn't want near me.

I still do that, so don't think this measure changed my playstyle. All what changed is that my pet is reduced to a mere auto-attack machine, and Ready is becoming less and less of a used ability. It's quickly approaching its retirement as much as Charm did.

[Helldemon]

Ready will never become useless, it's 95% of your dmg...

[Jile]

I also do not see <Ready> being less needed post-nerf; however, it's just far more cumbersome now.

Adjustments need made. For the most part, everyone in the community agree some changes would be nice.

The nerf was made due to high damage output, SE's nerf did not address that and only harmed how the job was played.

A JA that functions like SMN's 'avatar favor' could be put in it's place, where when active your JA ranges would be restored or at least greatly increased from current at a cost of half damage or something similar.

[Nyarlko]

I also do not see <Ready> being less needed post-nerf; however, it's just far more cumbersome now.

Adjustments need made. For the most part, everyone in the community agree some changes would be nice.

The nerf was made due to high damage output, SE's nerf did not address that and only harmed how the job was played.

A JA that functions like SMN's 'avatar favor' could be put in it's place, where when active your JA ranges would be restored or at least greatly increased from current at a cost of half damage or something similar.

That seems far more complicated than necessary and would still not solve the bugginess of the current implementation. It is possible for a player to be unable to issue commands while both master and pet are fighting the same target. The glitch is affected by the model sizes of both target and player. The simplest solution would be to change the range limitations of BST abilities so that they are relative to our targets. By this, I mean that when we use Ready, the system checks to make sure that the master is within range of the targeted enemy instead of checking that the master is within range of the pet.