AST issues and Healer role

[Sebazy]

Futhermore: Check the healer forums you're posting on.

Futhermore: Check Reddit.

One thing I will add, these forums (and reddit) have been massively wrong on plenty of occasions. Mindlessly basing your opinions on either of these is a very risky game

Want some examples? Years ago (My opinion was based on early 7 man SCOB sales long before the lockout was removed) I practically got laughed off reddit for claiming that Selene was actually a net DPS loss vs Eos. The moment ranked speed running became a thing? Eos everywhere.

And here? Well you only have to look recently at how most people were screaming that WHM was stone dead in the water and SCH was going to be a beast. Best forum u-turn 2k17?

Your views miss one huge detail imo. Some cards can literally be a booby trap in certain situations. Spear is a classic example of this, using it on DPS mid Savage attempts can throw their rotations off and will often result in a DPS loss as things fall out of sequence. Having Sleeve Draw drop a Spear in Spread is all the reason I ever need to never use that ability without a Balance in my pocket.

I need endgame experience to know how level 30 skills work? Wasn't aware.

Yes.

Many jobs are in the situation they are now because SE admittedly tuned them around dummies rather than actual content. DRG, BLM and War all look absolutely fine on paper and do decently on dummies. Throw them in real content and they underperform really quite drastically. With proper testing or oh I don't know, how about some actual understanding of how things play at the endgame, SE could have avoided these mistakes really rather easily.