@eternalstar01 - you should definitely open up your job quests with SCH. 52 you'll get Indomitability. An AOE heal with a cure Potency of 400. level 54 is Broil, it deals unaspected damage with a potency of 170. And at 56 you get Deployment Tactics. It basically lets you spread your eye for an eye and galvanize effects from Succor to party members near the target.

I personally switched from SCH to AST because I like the challenge. I struggle a bit in Savage with AST because my partner is a whm so I had to go back to sch but I generally only use AST for everything else. It still needs a bit of work with NOCT stance to make it a good whm/ast team.