How could you do this to AST?

[IceBlueNinja]

Let me highlight for you what you so skillfully ignored.



If shielding isn't absolutely neccessary even after exhausting all other options to survive a hit, it's a waste. Period. You can still prefer it but that doesn't make it objectively better.
And there isn't a single mechanic that will be a guaranteed one shot regardless of gear level and with mitigation. I'm pretty sure you as an experienced savage raider have noticed that people don't just drop dead from ful HP because of one raidwide.

Ok the regens are better than shields yeah let me just agree to all of you and validate and acknowledge that .Heard it like 100 times or more. However whether normal stuff/raid stuff/ main point is idc regens from the it become some mere 15 seconds where I liked it better when it was 30 seconds, still prefer shields even if they are not necessary at current content. What is wrong with what some one prefer whether its bad or good or situational, its my choice of (preference) which is the key term here. What is it a crime to like something even if something is better than it? some play the job for regens some play it for shielding, hybrid jobs give players things they enjoy and options to pick from it, anyone gets annoyed when a hybrid job is being stripped of something. kill the cards now taking away noct stance, may as well remove both stance and let the job hard core focus its card function again. Do some interesting rework that lets the card do things like buff/heals/migi abit like the storm blood cards but better if everyone say that ast should have its own identity and not be a copied clone stronger whm (which do not say that saying mind you. just I see people say it who do not fancy ast period*