A3S (AST Solo Heal)

[Ghishlain]

I'll just re-quote this since it seemed to have gotten lost in the thoughts of a few in the past few posts:

It's definitely an impressive video, but citing it as evidence for holistic class balance is a bit disingenuous.

This video does not showcase any validity to AST's viability. Instead, this video show cases a high level of skill and fight understanding. If this video was suppose to validate viability, everyone would be saying SCH would be unviable because there hasn't been a SCH-solo kill for A3S. But the vast majority of healers know that SCH currently sits on the highest rung of the healing totem pole and that the SCH kit isn't good to solo heal this particular fight.

Anyone with any healing sense will understand that AST is now a much more viable healer than it was on its inception. With those changes, the end game hardcore raiders will be evaluating every option available to them when making that World First race and decide their best course of action. It's why you see DRKs being so popular - because the World First raiders used it because the job maximized their chances at success. They will make the same judgements come 3.2X with the second tier of Alex (Savage) and we'll see if they judge AST worthy of World First praise. If not, well, at least we'll see more ASTs being used now thanks to the buffs it received.

A note to the pro-ASTs posting here - the amount of toxicity a few of you are spewing does much disservice to your argument. If you want to encourage healthy and forward thinking discussion to push healers towards your side, you'll need to do so with calm discussion and logic - not anger and wild emotions. You are showing you are no different from the toxic and baseless comments some anti-AST posters have shown in the past and thus should not be taken seriously. Just some food for thought.