Quote Originally Posted by TatoRazzino View Post
People don't know the difference between criticism and bashing things with misinformation. People need to play AST better, that's a fact; just look at every thread about the job's flaws and at least half of the complaints will be based on bad examples of cooldown usage or dumb ways to apply the buffs. Most of the other half of the complains will be based on people assuming that AST needs to do something it doesn't, which is replace SCH or WHM in a party to perform the 2.x meta; that's also dumb, since a new job always requires new strategies. If you take that out of criticism, there's almost nothing left for debate. I don't think AST needs a reworking and I don't think it has problems that need immediate fixing; WHM and SCH also have "broken" aspects, like bad traits for example, and they do their job just fine.
It's tough to argue against the math, Tato. I can't credibly claim that my raid group accurately represents most of the other groups out there, but our numbers are consistently higher when I or anyone else plays the SCH/WHM combo than with anything involving AST.

While you may or may not be tempted to throw the "well, the AST players need to get better" line, this experience is hardly unique on the forums. Many of us have been playing for over a year and have cleared every raid that the 2.x series had to offer. I seriously doubt that we collectively have a L2P issue when it comes to this Job. Much more likely that AST just produces less for equivalent effort. That is what I want to see addressed, as I believe that things are more fun with the Jobs in a given role at least have their own niches.