AST's weakness in end game

[TatoRazzino]

For anyone who cares about comparisons on a job's true potentials: always, always, always do this in any fair comparison. Using CO on just a party buff, even if it is AoE Balance, is a huge waste except for a few very niche cases (filled all your globals and mana-sated on the fight). You'll do more with the mana you get from extending LA and tossing out more Combust(2)/Malefic2/Aero.

I didn't think I had to explicit that strategy, but I now realize that people are not lining up their skills. So, yes, always try to hit everything.

[AzureFlare]

I didn't think I had to explicit that strategy, but I now realize that people are not lining up their skills. So, yes, always try to hit everything.

It definitely isn't as straight forward as most people think it is. I just had an AST on Thordan ex who on one attempt was wondering why he didn't have any mana, yet his base pool was 13k and he used CO without LA. Given, he was under the assumption the MCH in our party knew how to use Promoted Bishop, but he was sitting on 1k while I was on 10-12k. Sure, it isn't as fair of a comparison and a lot of other factors apply (11k mana difference after all), but that's like 3k-4.5k mana he missed on unsyncing his CO alone. He monitored his mana more on the attempt after, still didn't sync LA and CO and was behind by 6-7k mana still.