Need some help in finding useful parsing comparisons for AST...

[Gallus]

So roughly 4k damage for 10% of my mana and sacrificing 2 global cooldowns, when every tank now wants to be a warrior and use deliverance to further boost overall dps. It doesn't work. Go try it. I spent 3 hours wiping in Bismarck EX because tanks refused to use defiance, then get pissed off because healers aren't doing enough damage. Tanks die because they "need more dps" and healers cant heal because they "needs more dps". The cards, absolute best cast scenario, every 1 minute the entire party gets 5% increased damage for a few seconds. Worst case, you keep getting junk that wont aid very much at all. The class is a joke, as well as this ludicrous notion that healers needs to be dps and tanks need to be dps.

Btw, 4k damage isnt crap anymore when several classes can hit more with a single swing.

I was talking about 1st world clears and good static teams though. I've been farming bismark EX with my static and I can DPS in every phase, and trust me it does help a ton, especially with the green + blue dragon phase where the DPS can be tight if the dragons decide changing marks every time. I don't give a **** about what happens in bad teams, SE doesn't balance the game taking into account terrible players, stuff is balanced around what good players do, not around MT STR tank heroes or terribly inefficient players. 10k Damage from 4 dots is significant, it isn't crap my ass, one DPS at most can go up to 900 or 1k DPS per second so having 4 DPS at most would mean 4k DPS raid damage per second, a mere 2 dots from both healers equal more than 2 seconds of the damage of your entire raid , add those 2 dots 5-6 times and you are already pushing phases and going through stuff you wouldn't even smell otherwise, but you are free to spam cures in a boss that is only autoattacking a tank that is already being offhealed by a couple of regens or a fairy.