[Lmnop]

Awesome. My attempts to stop any SMN conversations are what caused them. No, Susurrus, I was never ever ever referring to what you said. I'll keep my reading comprehension exactly where it is: unable to see YM's sarcasm.

I think the reason behind what Lmnop is saying is that once something becomes about SMN, wherever it is spoken about, it turns into a SMN Royale cryfest and then we can expect Malacite to decend upon the thread and list all his dislikes about a job he's hardly levelled.

Eeeeexactly.

And I agree. We already had some insight into what's planned for SMN. BST, on the other hand... has a lot of potential for growth and no talk from S-E about plans for it. It's a perfect time to put on our thinking caps and pretend we have a say.

I like the idea of controlling Mob WS. I like the idea of BST assimilating buffs from pets (or even nearby 3rd party mobs?). I do not like the idea of full party buffs, however. This really is too much like SMN.

Btw, would it be too powerful to let BSTs use Snarl with Charmed pets? This is an honest question since I have 0 Snarl experience. Maybe a dumbed down version where it only takes half the enmity or something?

[LadyKiKi]

Originally Posted by Lmnop

Btw, would it be too powerful to let BSTs use Snarl with Charmed pets? This is an honest question since I have 0 Snarl experience. Maybe a dumbed down version where it only takes half the enmity or something?

I think ..... no, but it will totally mess up a BST's ability to learn hate (some of these "natural" skills you tend to pick up throughout the course of soloing on BST) control.

In most "important" situations you'll never be able to effectively use it then, aside from using it to save your own ass. But some wild pets out there at 73-75 (I don't classify 76+ as charmable due to the duration/extra care needed) are damn strong, i.e. Korrigans

However, in the situations where we can effectively use Snarl on a wild pet, the wild pet would probably out damage you anyway, and if in the case of it being in an area with much lower level pets, your jug pets are probably stronger anyway than a wild pet.

However, if you imagine in fights where (wild) pet swaps are needed, a BST can go all out and not worry about the next pet swap because they can just throw the hate onto their next wild pet after swap. Due to this, I think this is the reason why it only works on a jug pet due to the timer on one and you can't really excessively use it.