Quote Originally Posted by Evumeimei View Post
AST has been excluded from a decent amount of content either because it still has the stigma from the original release, or because many people believed it was not on par with WHM. So, I just find it interesting that WHMs suddenly feel threatened. As far as I'm aware WHM has always been needed/preferred in the past. Why shouldn't AST be favored for once? (And who is to say it will even be preferred? The patch just came out today.)
What is with this mindset of "buzz off, WHMs had their turn, it's AST's time now"? Are you really that petty? ALL compositions should be viable, that's what I'm trying to express. I say this as an AST main, even, who used to get quite the stigma from the parties I grouped with. I still remember how every Vault wipe was my fault, and every Thordan EX wipe was my fault. (I never even cleared that one because I got tired of the anti-AST bias with parties for it.) I STILL don't want WHMs to be left out in the cold of favor of ASTs. I want SE to fix their crappy healer balance, and work on designing future healing jobs to have unique playstyles and fill different niches, not just a "burst or mitigative" healer trend.