Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
Funny because AST damage rotation was pretty much the framework for the Shadowbringers damage re-work and no AST would have wished their pre-ShB rotation on anyone.

Regarding their lore, I find it funny that basically that their lore is essentially useless now with the current changes.
Yep it is just the combination of it all that really really stinks about current Ast.

Heck our dps rotation in HW(most complex Ast was) was only combust, combust II and malefic II not exactly much but its card system very much mitigated this something the current card system cannot do, it is too simplified and so the current dps rotation sticks out way more.

If SE wanted to simplify dps on healers they needed to have offshoot this with something else that is engaging, yet they didn't do this, they instead decided to simplify everything else as well, lilies are now on timer so no more managing whm cds (really the only positive due to how lilies were generated before but still a simplification), the best the pet system had been and deciding heals or damage for sch was removed(only energy drain back so it has that only), Ast lost old card system and the time manipulation tied to it. All healers lost something in tandem with simplified dps rotations, this shouldn't have happened, the thought process should have been ok we are simplifying dps on healers how can we improve engagement elsewhere on each healer this is where the devs have gone wrong and where they need to see what they have done to the healer role.