Quote Originally Posted by Hoehenflug View Post
Your ideas are/were really ambitious. I feel like my approach of mashing Melee+EGI is a bit more likely, but aside from option B (which is SMN now I guess) I'd play this.

It's a bit like that time when HS devs told us over multiple years that player avatars would be too confusing. Or when SE killed Astro (and NIN) for me, because 'muh TP'. Oh well.
I am in agreement on this. While I think Shurrikhan's idea of having a small cast of pets is probably the best way they could implement a BST, it would still be a pet class with all the pet bugs. And if we take out the pets and make them a casting rotation, it's just like every other class (you compare it to SMN but I'm actually getting more MNK vibes with Couerl/Raptor forms).

I do have to say though it's a valiant effort and much better than what I've generally seen on here. Certainly hits on something that feels achievable and meaningful, as opposed to just another empty collect-a-thon.

Again, there is only one working pet in the game and that is your Companion Chocobo. I think that is probably the best jumping off point for this concept (and indeed, the Companion feature feels like it wants to naturally balloon out and flourish into a quasi-BST feature anyway).