I don't know if you mean single target or AoE that they were stomping them, but AST can do a ridiculous amount of AoE DPS now. Put up Lightspeed, extend it, and start spamming Gravity - you'll out DPS everyone except DPS with actually good AoE. Even single target AST is nothing to sneeze at anymore since we don't have to clip the GCD. I run a parser once in a while to monitor myself and I was shocked at my numbers (this was also in Swallows).

Though single target an AST still shouldn't be able to handily best a SMN, so...sounds like you were partied with me. #WorstSMNNA

Quote Originally Posted by 24spencer View Post
I'm pretty sure that "content isnt designed with healer dps in mind" is from yoshi talking about how alexander normal mode was designed around healers not dpsing and now people just attribute that quote to all content when that is extremely unlikely to be the case with savage.
This had been stated in interviews leading up to Stormblood, so unless they're being shady behind the scenes is supposedly still the case.