According to FFLogs, AST pDPS >= WHM pDPS in 4.3

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Are you referring to Stoneskin II? That's still suck a shame, considering AST and SCH both have skills that can be considered mandatory in raids (SCH especially).
It almost feels like they hand select which jobs to meticulously balance, and which jobs to just go all out and break.

he was refering to the Proshell trait. originally only WHM could increse the magic defense with Protect, everyone else could only increse the physical defense. WHM also lost the 18% Stoneskin.

and in exchange WHM got traits wich randomly reduced the MP cost of Medica and that you could cast Stoneskin 0.5 seconds faster... yaaay...

i don't even say that WHM should have kept the Proshell exclusivity... but they should have given him something meaningfull back in exchange... and the excuse for removing the 18% Stoneskin because "% scaling shields are too powerfull with the incresed HP pools" feels like a joke now, considering we now have a 15% instant off-gcd shield and the 20% / 10% shield of DRK wich scales always at the DRKs HP and Shake it Off from WAR...