Question for those who didn't pick up AST til 5.0 or after.

[Liam_Harper]

But I think the developers should listen more to those who actively play the jobs rather than the ones who don’t, or who just play it on occasion. And this is for more than just AST; it’s for all jobs in general.

Agreed.

I like the current AST, but honestly I'm a WhM main and the class shouldn't be designed for me. I've been rather against Enix's mentality this expansion of ripping classes, features and content away from players who really loved those things and trying to hand them over to people who didn't really have much interest in them. The whole point of multiple classes is to offer a variety of different playstyles so there's something for everyone. Watering them all down and trying to cater to the same vague majority doesn't actually please a wider target audience. It's flawed logic because you're only covering that one playstyle.

If there really were people who enjoyed the old AST, they should be working with them rather than tossing them aside. The vague casual majority doesn't need every class and feature in the game.