Disrespectful and Dismissive.

[HyoMinPark]

Editing every time frame I can changes the numbers only when doing so by limiting to the 4.4 patch - which notes a significant decrease, but also makes sense - There's significantly less people who do the content on release and significantly less people who can run the content more than once per week.

I have no reason to disbelieve that the log numbers are unreliable, but even if we do snapshot only two weeks of Alpha/Sigma/Delta, this one week + 1 one day of Eden far outstrips both of them.

I’m changing the criteria from Over a Range of 2 Weeks to Over a Range of 1 Week. It actively slices the parses in half. The period is from 2 weeks (or 1 week), not the lifetime of the tier (roughly 6 1/2 months). Going back into my old logs from Deltascape confirmed that WHMs had rankings possible out of over 23,000 from an O1S kill on Dec 12, 2017. That’s already more than the numbers quoted for overall WHM logs on All Bosses in your link (little over 16,000). Note that Sigmascape released on January 31, 2018, so my final kill of Alte Roite was a month and a half before Sigma dropped.

Comparatively, for a different view, my final BRD kill of O1S (same date) was against a little over 18,500 logs for just that boss compared to the ~15,800 for All Bosses in your link.

Also of note, comparing the last two weeks of old tiers to the first week + 1 day of a brand new one is going to yield you skewed numbers. More people are doing it when the content is fresh—less when the content is about to become irrelevant because they already farmed it to death by this point. Not to mention, the playerbase is also larger than it was back in Deltascape (and certainly during Alphascape, because I know quite a few raiders that just unsubbed and didn’t even participate in the tier), so we also have to account for that.

However, if we assume a two week snapshot of each, Eden far outstrips Omega on all tiers. Dwindling healer numbers seems an inaccurate claim.

So you cannot say this with any accuracy. You’re compare the lowest point of Omega to the highest point of Eden. It’s a skewed comparison.

"Healer numbers declining" is misinformation at best and an outright lie at worst.

Given the data you provided, I don’t know how you can confirm nor deny this based off of that data alone. The data you presented isn’t accurate for the lifetime of a tier.

literally came here for this. "Oh sorry people complained about how hard cards were and there were 'bad cards' so we decided to gut entire lore and gameplay for players regarding AST. Sorry not sorry" And CERTAIN youtube content creators backing it up because they personally only care about their dps numbers and want a personal number battery in every Savage Extreme Ultimate etc round, disregarding entire healer communities who enjoyed their healer for years as was.

Regarding the last comment, since The Website That Shall Not Be Named now only filters by rDPS, padding isn’t going to be that prevalent, so the Personal Number Battery argument sort of falls apart. However, I do agree with disliking the card changes—not a fan myself, and I probably won’t play AST much if at all because of it. Two things drew me to the job: the animations and the card system. As pretty as the former is, the complete rework of the latter is too huge a turn off.