Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
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
It was all around with single target and AOE. Now, the AST wasn't coming close at all towards my numbers because my BLM is a little OP'ed for expert dungeons now, but that AST was beating the SMN on trash pulls and the bosses in terms of DPS. I was wondering what on earth were they doing with Bahamut the whole time, lol. I was doing around 6,000ish, AST was doing around 3,000ish, SMN was only doing 2,000. And I tend not to worry TOO MUCH on tank DPS in expert unless the tank is staying in DPS stance and losing aggro over and over again towards me, then that's a problem, lol.