Quote Originally Posted by MidnightTundra View Post
You do Aero to avoid clipping the GCD (clipping tampers with DPS) with Fluid Aura and Assize. You can do both in one GCD depending on latency. Aero definitely still has its uses. Aero II is a low duration/high potency attack. You're not spamming stone III as much as you're spamming Malefic II because Aero III and Aero II have to be reapplied more frequently in comparison to Combust I/II. WHM also has 3 AoE skills to play with while AST has one. His boredom with AST's rotation is perfectly valid.
One of the AoE things you mentioned is Assize, up every 90s; the other is Aero III I assume, which is applied not that often in AoE situations because the mobs are usually dead for two casts of Aero III be worth the GCD; the other is Holy, which you spam just like Gravity. So yeah, every other mob pull in a dungeon you get an off GCD and once every pull you get to apply a HoT. Pretty boring as well, if you ask me.
If you're a good AST, you also have 3 DoTs in single target and the difference in duration you mentioned is not enough for you to say you wouldn't be bored as WHM; in one minute, you cast Stone III maybe two or three times less than you cast Malefic II, so I have absolutely no idea where that point is coming from. It's not as if you get a complete new animation from Aero II that makes it even a thing to break the so called boredom of spamming your burst damage spell.

If you guys want to talk about the advantages of WHM over AST, do it like Sleigh and talk about something real instead of bringing up ridiculous differences in DPS rotation that do nothing in an actual fight.