What if the new Job is Beastmaster?

[Xenosan]

This is an overly complicated design for no reason. You'd have them make complex systems in the game for a single job, a health link that's overall pointless and an enmity shift that's even more pointless.

Well, one reason being I'd rather not see Shield Oath copy-pasted to the next Tank Job for the second time in a row.

It's complicated because you may still thinking of pets like Egi/Faerie. The above could have sounded like machine language, sorry, i was trying to be concise.

I said, 'like a minion' meaning they appear to be fighting, but the execution is actually coming from the player controlled BST. The pet doesn't really attack, the BST does. Having the 'Pet' summoned though gives you bonus AAs like SwOath stance.

There wouldn't be an enmity transfer because the pet doesn't have enmity, the pet isn't really there, it's a stance, a gate, a mechanic like Defiance or Darkside.

ShieldOath/Grit nullify 20% damage. The pet-as-a-stance does the same but not so easily, because the pet is actually just Defiance's +max HP bonus & HP recovered buffs in disguise. Instead of getting the 25% max bonus directly to your HP bar, it goes to the bottom of the party list where pets usually go (the faux pet), it then eats 20% of any damage you receive up until it dies.

While this is the approach I would prefer to BST, I meant more to give this as an example illustrating that we don't need literal pet controls and instruction to make a "pet job", (in this case, BST job is a Barrier tank - the pet being the barrier to manage), just make the pet a fundamental mechanic to whatever role responsibility the job has.

It should be nice to pay respects to the franchise history, but it also has to do so in a way that fits within this game. If they or we aren't willing to concede to that than yeah it will never happen.