AST fix ever?

[KDSilver]

"preparing" a Bole meant a DPS loss. You can call it what you want, FFXIV endgame is just DPS. More DPS is less things to deal with, that's it.
I'm having a hard time believing AST planned Boles for prog (at least, I didn't) when shields (espiecially with a SCH) and mitigation are 1 reliable 2 not a DPS loss 3 arguably more efficient.

You are right. I agree. I can't disagree, this is true.
However... except if you're running with the same (good) static 100% of the time and only stick to savage as the content you do...
Most FFXIV experience "sadly" can't be summed up by that.

When you help least experienced player, when you run other content such as dungeon, r24, deep dungeon, eureka.
I understand it might not matter to a lot of people (precisely raider only), but for me, it does.

As much as I enjoy raiding and optimizing myself (so, going for the full dps cards and balance fishing with some of my old static), I also enjoyed "saving" the day with some bole and ewer elsewhere for some progging or anything else.

What I'm trying to say is, as much as it's true that dps is king in this game, the first requirement for this is playing really good (mitigating damage, performing your rotation well, good oGCD healing timing, doing mechanic properly...)
And perfect scenario is not what you meet everyday if you play this game with several player on different content.
I can't suddenly make them play better in 2s. Instead, I had some option to cover these situation. And I miss that flexiblity of gameplay with AST.

That's all.

[Mansion]

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I got a bit derailed by the flow of the discussion, but essentially I'm on that side. While I did not rely on bole effect or whatever, I did enjoy having 6 cards, 3 royal roads and two Minor Arcana.

I agree with QooEr about how they thought they fixed AST when in reality they created even more problems. But it would be very difficult to make support other than DPS boost in a game like FFXIV where everything boils down to DPS.