It's really the player base and people's experiences with not so good AST players leading to it. So you have bias out there, even shutting out the AST role in party finders. I about laugh at these for Thordan and savage clears. These people who want clears are struggling to get players, yet they have no experience with what a good one will do. While many of us ASTs are clearing this content with no problem on a regular basis. Their loss? You bet.

Even YoshiP said it himself in his recent 4gamer interview last week the difference between a subpar and an excellent one is night and day. I couldn't agree more. He had nodded to considering some of the quality of life changes people are requesting like our high aggro generation and re-drawing same cards after shuffle. Our job isn't perfect, but certainly it's more than capable in end-game raiding.

One can even argue that AST/SCH is a better combo in A1S because you have the luxury of going in with the pull with a full spread balance before the split adding more DPS to the raid and if you draw up more DPS buffs before the split you are making the fight easier to clear and maybe help save a jump if you got the DPS. Not to mention our cooldowns like disable, synastry, and light speed work extremely well for all of the healing mechanics.

Back to the subpar player comment, two days ago I was tanking an A4 normal on my Dark Knight and we had 2 ASTs, shockingly both went Diurnal. Both struggled so much for obvious reasons, that I practically blew every cooldown in my book to live. I just don't get it considering Noct AST is so good in A4 you can eat every ball with an instant shield and practically take almost no damage. It was so bad to watch. Must be that thought in their head that Noct is "bad".