Quote Originally Posted by Veis_Alveare View Post
Then you're playing AST suboptimally.

This would be like someone saying that they stand behind bosses for everything even when they have flank positionals; an easily correctable mistake that gives less benefit than its worth. Sure, you're safer from maybe getting a bit too close to the front of the boss and getting cleaved and you can focus on mechanics more than hitting your positionals... but you should just do all of that anyways.

To be clear I'm not saying you should RR anything that isn't an AoE Balance. I've used cards for all these things before myself when I had no other option but to do so. What I don't understand is the idea that suboptimal card usage is somehow AST's identity. It very much isn't.
I also understand not everyone is trying to optimize their play, that's fine too! But we don't balance jobs around suboptimal play. At the end of the day this change let them normalize an AST's potential rDPS contribution in a raid setting which I can only see as a positive for healer balance. That's worth more than "utility" forced upon us by RNG.

I just wanted to quote this for emphasis. I am 100% in agreement on this, and all the players who are against the AST changes really need to read and understand these handful of sentences.