Quote Originally Posted by Leanna View Post
AST was a failure from the begining...
The concept could have worked, but there needed to be a significant drawback, i.e., noticeably weaker heals or DPS. We were a bit weak at the very beginning, but too many buffs followed, and now we not only heal better than WHM/SCH, we also have considerably more utility. That's bad enough. But they also made easy a class that was supposed to be challenging in order to deliver all that it could and still be considered reasonably balanced. AST is no longer a challenge to play as of 3.4, and come Stormblood, its going to be a joke. I don't want my class to be easy, I want it to be interesting, and challenge is part of that. If we're going to bring X, Y, and Z to the table, we should have to work for it, not be given it.