As much as ppl around here hate it, FFXI did amazing things with class fantasy. If you played a smn, sch, thf, war, mnk, whm, rdm, blm, geo, etc you FELT like you were playing that class. SMN had you controlling actual summons who fought for you while you balanced your mp and you could summon Alexander, Odin and others for big attackls on a timer. All summons had lore and had to be earned as well instead of just, hey look I guess I can summon Bahamut now! And don't even get me started on how fantastic blu was in xi compared to the boring side show we got here. Could have put a blue vest and red flannel on me and I would have been the meme when I unlocked that thing. I can only imagine how messed up bst will be, esp compared to bst in xi. If it feels even remotely like we are a beast master I will be surprised since I would bet dollars to donuts its just going to be blu 2.0 but with regulators.

No idea how 1 company can have 2 mmos with the same classes and make one's classes feel so good and so true to their name and history, while the other feels just so so bad and redundant not only compared to the other mmo but also the single player games in the same series.