Why people says AST is bad?

[Crevox]

Fey Wind used to be two parts that gives 30% skill speed or spell speed. Now it's both speeds at a tenth of what it used to do. It's a nerf.

It didn't affect attack speed before, it affected the skill/spell speed stat in your character window, which was far worse. Attack speed is a straight up 3% reduction off of cast time, auto attack delay, and recast time. It's also important to mention that it didn't even affect auto attack delay before, which is a huge portion of any physical attacker's DPS.

The combined nature of it also allows you to better control the DPS gain in tense DPS phases of fights. Rather than only half the party benefiting every 30 seconds, the whole party does, so you can pop it during something like Bismarck's back and the whole party can reap the DPS benefits.

Why do I bother explaining :|