Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[ty_taurus]

Agreed. Not to mention that it renders healers useless on their own outside of instances. 4 entire jobs in an RPG cannot be played independently in the open world of an MMO is such a joke. On top of that it really disrespects the players that like hybrid playstyle. I think the person you responded to was arguing in bad faith tbh.

I've elaborated on this concept before, but I feel that AST would make sense to move party damage buffs onto the GCD--ones that are based in potency and not percentage--and make that their focus. They would still want to keep Combust up, and would have Malefic for solo, but a lot of your gameplay would stem from placing buff stacks on the party through healing and support that deal potency damage to enemies when that ally attacks--including yourself.