I will say that I do really like the AST job.
I LOVE the animations and the idea of the Job.
The skill curve is pretty large as well.

It just turns out that I'm terrible at it, so I'll stick with SCH and hope my AST partners are better at the class than I was.
I dont think its nearly as bad as is implied in the 15 other AST threads.
Its just pretty hard to play right.