What if the new Job is Beastmaster?

[Xenosan]

XIV's BLM isn't a Final Fantasy Franchise defining BLM, and neither will XIV's RDM be a full representation of RDM, or Bard a real Bard, SMN ever a real SMN, PLD a PLD, etc etc. Why the double standard.

sigh SMN backlash >.< (which frankly I see as as much a grievance of XIV's adherence to role trinity and combat meta as it is about SMN's identity).

Hopefully it's not 10 years :X Hopefully they're overthinking FFXIV pet gameplay or just jaded with that SMN backlash

They have to do something different for pet management, not every pet job should resemble faeries and egis.

but I am perfectly fine if BST's pet was as simple as functioning like a large Minion with an HP bar (as in: no pet aggro, no pet hitbox, no pet positioning), where damage to player is split 80% to 20% between player and pet, pet gets healed for 20% of the heal to the BST, and does damage with +enmity to the BST. The pet being the BST's Tank and DPS stances essentially.

I am not expecting/hoping for all pet focus jobs to be some Pokemon gameplay. It doesn't have to go to that extreme in order to pay homage to the essence of pet themed jobs.