Quote Originally Posted by Lunafreya View Post
. What could SE do to make AST less hated?
Make the players better? The problem most people have with certain roles, is that the average player is just average. But with some roles, average isn't good enough.
An average Paladin can't do enough DPS. An average AST can't keep everyone alive when it counts etc. It's not that the roles deserve hate, it's that below average and average players ruin the perception of the role for everyone.
I have a PLD friend who consistently pulls high DPS and tanks well, higher than most warriors we're ever grouped with. People still think PLD's can't do damage.
Yet yesterday when his group cleared A4S, he was number two for DPS (just under 1k). Yet 75% of PLDs get below 700 on the same fight (fflogs).

Anyways, when a job is harder, more people are bad at it, making it a misconception that the job is bad.