Spear is very useful on Machinists and Ninjas (and perhaps Bards) during a fight, and can be very useful in melee if you get it on the pull. Just stating that it should be used on yourself for LA or shuffling it is not particularly good skills from a raid AST.

Bole says hello to tank busters, something a raid AST should be looking out for. Situational usage of cards is important for a raid AST.

With Arrow and Balance, why are you suggesting that if you cant aoe it, you should spread it as a priority instead of using it? On a single dps for burn phases its very very very good, and keeping it spread indefinitely until you get an aoe royal road is pretty much gimping your buffing performance throughout a raid.

Spire/ewer should be uses appropriatly. Ewer can be used on yourself, as many raid AST take the place of WHM and ar expcted to put out a lot of mana intensive solo healing. Spire can let a war go a bit more crazy in deliverence, can let melee dps do more aoe when needed etc in raids.