Please give AST an instant cast damage spell

[Risvertasashi]

It's good to see that the "tone" of my post wasn't misplaced.

Well, so let's revisit that.

Most arguments which compel for the addition of DPS abilities for AST would be angrily flared upon by the forums due to ASTs ability to chaotically buff the DPS potential of the party.

Yes. And if you suggested a substantial buff to Samurai's DPS (even with reasoning like 'to make it flow better'), you also probably wouldn't find much support. That doesn't mean the masses are conspiring against you to keep the job down. Maybe, just maybe, you do have to factor in a job's current strength before you can find support for strong buffs to it.

To be clear, you're not trying to imply that all of the healer jobs only have 1 GCD DoT available to them, right?

Instant GCD DoT, thus allowing oGCD weaving. SCH has two, as noted, but one of them is highly situational. In a regular, single target rotation -- this is exactly right. Each healer has one GCD instant-cast DoT.

But on the healing side, WHM and AST also have an instant GCD heal that sees regular use, so there's also that opportunity to weave. Nonetheless, the ultimate point is this: All healers GCD clip. It's not a problem that is somehow unique to AST. OP is asking for this problem to be solved for AST only, in a way that would also substantially buff its overall performance.

SCH is a good example because of the sheer number of oGCDs. 6 in the first minute, 3 every minute after that. Aetherflow is also an oGCD instant, so make that 4 per minute instead. And that's just stuff from 2.0. Then add in all the oGCDs from HW/SB ability additions... Yeah, there's a lot.