AST, MCH, DRK and their failure as new jobs at HW launch

[AlphaFox]

I think people are still learning the jobs. Remember we had basically 2 years of playing with Paladin and Warrior. Cleric and Scholar. Now we have a new healer and tank, its going to take time for us to learn the rotations and optimal timing of everything. I have seen Darks do just fine and I would like to say I am a pretty good AST who has had minimal, if any, issues keeping my team alive.

[loreleidiangelo]

I think people are still learning the jobs. Remember we had basically 2 years of playing with Paladin and Warrior. Cleric and Scholar. Now we have a new healer and tank, its going to take time for us to learn the rotations and optimal timing of everything. I have seen Darks do just fine and I would like to say I am a pretty good AST who has had minimal, if any, issues keeping my team alive.

There was no "learning curve" with AST; it was honestly a garbo-tier healer at it's release. Now that it's been buffed, it's competitive on the healing level, though most statics I've seen are still recruiting for WHM/SCH only on my server.

[FoxyAreku]

They fixed all three of them fairly quickly, though astro took longer than I would have liked.

It was their first time adding a batch of new jobs so it's expected that they wouldn't be perfect. I know they released Ninja first but that was just a melee dps that didn't need to have much synergy with anything.