How did you settle on your main?

[loreleidiangelo]

Up until recently, my "main" had always been whatever role my raid group required me to be, really. I was a SCH in the 2.0-.1 series, swapped to WHM because I swapped raid groups and it turns out I was 1000x better at that but was pretty dissatisfied while raiding because me and my co-healer were so good at healing that it actually became a little boring. We lost a DPS at the start of Final Coil and had an interested WHM in search of a group so I made the swap to SMN, which is what I mained until 3.0. When AST was announced, it seemed exactly like the job that could make me love healing again, and while leveling I was just in awe at how gorgeous the spell effects and animations were. Lo and behold, when Savage Alex came out and Eso tomes came out and decisions had to be made on what I would play, I went with the "safer" option of SMN, because pre-buff AST was pretty godawful. (To be frank, I'd prefer if it got a complete overhaul at this point to remove the "can be a gimpy WHM or SCH" schtick, but know that's unlikely to happen now.)

I don't raid anymore now, and I'm back to maining AST. While the job still doesn't quite feel like it knows what it wants to be, I love healing my parties and buffing in my downtime (rather than DPSing, like I would on WHM or SCH. Don't get me wrong, I still do healer DPS as AST, it's just that people are more forgiving of me doing less of it so long as I keep buffs up and watch my mana pool). I hope the job gets more features to allow us to better work with the terrible, terrible card RNG though.