Quote Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP View Post
Except for the fact, it's been stated time and time again, that the bad AST card was a mistranslation. Yoshi even quoted AST has no bad cards.
This. At worst, yes, you won't be "buffing their DPS" if you draw the MP reduction card, the TP reduction card, or the damage reduction card, but there could be arguments that via resource management assistance you are "effectively" increasing DPS with every AST card you use.

I know nobody wants WHM to be ousted from the current progression meta, but unless AST's regen sect is really underwhelming and/or SCH's raw healing buffs aren't as good as we think they are currently, I really do think this might be what happens in hardcore "first"-type groups.