Quote Originally Posted by miraidensetsu View Post
I tried to do the transition and... I hate it.

I had to do 2 or 3 times more work to do what I already do with WHM. It's very clunky, the card system is boring and have no decision making anymore, it plays pretty bad on joystick, it's attack potencies is pitiful (remembering that I use WHM for everything, specially to solo, not just to do selected hard multiplayer content) and hits like wet noodle (even with same equips).

The only upside I see is it's buffs. But even those don't change the fact that AST feels weaker than WHM, gives more trouble for essentially same thing I solve with 1 or 2 buttons with WHM. I feel I am more useful to the party playing as WHM.
Yeah I had the same power issues with AST when I approached it from WHM in EW and again after DT came out, WHM main things, back in EW it also severely punished all my WHM bad habits. I stuck with it though, learned to heal earlier, plan further, all that lovely stuff and the DT cards while less random do afford me a level of flexibility I wish WHM had - Yes WHM can drop a regen, a mit and a shield on someone in one GCD just the same as AST can but AST gives me that multiple times in multiple ways.

Anyway, back on point, WHM has so much raw power on tap and I love it (I really do) and there's a degree of satisfaction in that, AST's satisfaction comes in a feeling of absolute battlefield control when you do it right, similar to SCH in my experience. When I do both right they feel just as good as WHM.

As SCH, however, I feel it hitting as hard as WHM. Potencies wise. It's clunky as well, but it is on a bearable level. And its shields is something that really makes the difference when soloing. Lost the count of how many times critlo saved my sorry arse from a tankbuster.

I feel that I just need to understand better the late kit and build confidence to make the switch.
I'm glad you get along better than I do with SCH, I see people like Supersnow touting it as being insanely powerful but I've never really experienced that first hand, it might just be my failing - SCH never really clicks with me the way WHM does.