Looking to lvl BST...Follow

So, I leveled bst to about 46 a long time ago when there where big xp cuts for pets. I gave up after paying 10k to get tele ynoats several times in a row every time I tried to xp.

After restarting a couple years later, I got bst back up to Leave at 35. I haven't touched it since then, over a year now.

I haven't leveled any job that low lvl in probly 6 mo+ now. The last was COR and I gave up on that for the most part seeing as how I have RNG and COR did the same thing with the added pain of buffs.

Anyways, as I sit here at 1AM thinking seriously about gearing up my BST yet again for a grindfest with the aid of FoV, I had a couple questions.


1. What does BST get to do endgame? Is it accepted in Salvage or Einherjar? I know it is severely limited in sea/sky and arguably dynamis and limbus based on the lack of charmable pets(not worthless, but using another job is probably preferred). I know it could sit in on a lot of ZNM up to t3 at least, and I really never plan on doing HNM. I have seen the BST strat for rostrum NM fight, but it seems outdated now that everything can be sam burned.

2. If not endgame or NM fights, what does BST do at 75? Just browsing posts here ppl are sore at the concept of lvl 75 BST, it means there's nothing left for them to do with the job.

3. Besides some af/relic/+1 for charm, do BST hope to acquire any endgame gears? Would a haste build just tear hate from pets, being more of a con than a pro? Besides Temp axe, is there anything BST lust for?(gear)

So, whats the deal? What is there to do once at 75??? All my other jobs have their uses, some can be interchanged at the same events, others have been outshined and forgotten due to the usefulness of still others. Would bst be just a grind to 75 and then put on the shelf like my nin and mnk for events, just something to wear for soloing some merits with FoV in sky or w/e?

Bst is good for low manning certain NMs and for a few bcnms. I have done a little end game with it (dynamis/Nyzul). In nyzul it's decent enough for the floor climbs. But not as good for the bosses on Nyzul. Dynamis there are deff better stuff to use endgame. Since you have ranger lvld... any endgame event will most likely ask you to change to ranger if you come bst.

But endgame isn't really what bst is about. Bst is about doing what you want on your own time. Learning mob movment patterns in zones. It's all about the journey. Now don't get me wrong I'm not one of those that believe bst is dead at 75. On the contrary at 75 you do exactly what you did at lower levels. Charm a pet.. kill a higher level mob.. get xp.. get drops. Rinse, repeat. After all this time bst is still my only 75.

As for gear. I am, as I like to call it, a "Charming Bst." I lust after anything that has more chr that I currently have. After that basic DD gear will do just fine, but at 75 you shouldn't have too much trouble with hate.

TBH I did not read your whole post before posting this.. and now that i've read your last paragraph.. bst is prob not for you.

But the only way to know for sure is to give it a go. If at 75 you discover (like many of us have) that you still enjoy killing T's with your em/dec then no, bst won't be forgotten. But if you hate the grind.. and are looking for the light at the end of the tunnel.. sorry. I found no tunnel.. it was light all the way ( even when i was eating dirt)

Edit: Random Pet LS disclaimer.. if you find a good pet ls then things are a little different.^^

Edited, Oct 12th 2009 7:22am by HatoriofGaruda