One thing that I can't get over with is how people started the misconceptions about the job since before it was launched by saying it would be a mini-WHM in Diurnal and a mini-SCH in Nocturnal. This is one of the things that makes people not play the job properly even now, months after the launch. By putting AST in the niche, filler spot, people assumed that knowing how to play WHM or SCH was enough to play AST; they were wrong, and when they failed, the job got blamed. No one looked at what the job could do, just at what it couldn't - and this is still happening.

The regen does not make WHM what it is, and having shields is not what defines the SCH. Those jobs are defined by the interactions between their actions, their mechanics and how they handle healing in general. Regens/shields are only a part of their toolkit.

People have to stop thinking that regens belong to WHM or that shields belong to SCH; when new healing jobs are released, we'll see that other healers will get those things in different ways and if we can't get over this whole "every healer is a WHM or SCH in disguise", we'll have the same problems we have now.