I miss old AST cards

[FireMage]

Maybe you should, while you're there you can look up 'strawman' so you can stop using that wrong too

I already have the requisite education to use both words correctly. Fact is your long winded post was full of hyperbole, class flavor hasn't been removed for balance on any singular job ever

HW/SB 'fast, sustained damage DRK' turning into SHB 'WAR, but edgy' DRK, AST cards, SCH losing it's DOTs, SMN losing it's DOTs/pet control aspects, MCH moving from gun class to go-go-gadget bottom-of-the-dps-charts, NIN losing aggro management tools, Tanks in general losing aggro management as a gameplay factor, Healers losing Cleric Stance as an optimization (HW Cleric Stance can stay gone, but the SB role action was ok), classic WHM skill Protect completely removed instead of being reworked into a WHM specific thing, any potential difference in identity Sage could have had beyond 'what if SCH didn't have to fight it's fairy to do OGCDs', list probably goes on but it'll all be waved away with 'strawman!' as usual I suspect

why am I even trying

DRK, still revolves around proper use of MP, and has one of the busiest bursts in the game still, try again. AST cards were imbalanced, they are still a facet of the Job though. SCH gained, yes gained, more identity by removing some of its SMN jank. SMN, has gained better identity with EW. MCH gained identity with its expansion of tools. NIN lost no identity with the removal of tools that only punished tanks if they weren't used. Tanks, see prior, also imagine actually saying that aggro management is class identity, yikes. Healers losing CS was for the benefit of the role. WHM Protect punished any non WHM comp. SGE and SCH are practically night and day, you should know this. Like holy hell, you should know better than this given your skill, sad. Also 20 post daily limit is cancer