Have AST given up ?

[Veve]

I can't do as many DPS as AST, it's bit frustrating
It's a fun job though...

This ^ 100%

AST is a great class and I like to hop on it from time to time, I just find it's lack of dps to be very off putting for me. I'm a SCH main so it feels unnatural to me not to be dpsing at times where there isn't a lot of healing going on.