Quote Originally Posted by Culfinrandir View Post
As a SCH I see this all the time. I don't know why SE made AST shields more 'desirable' than those of a Scholar given that it is one of the reasons SCH exists. It would be best if Noct stance was unavailable unless a second AST or WHM was in the party.
It was a quick fix back all the way in 3.3 and 3.4. You had hundreds of clears of A8s with whm/sch and sch/ast but only like 8-9 clears with whm/ast. They needed to do something to make it better than sch and since the cards were rng and not as strong back then as for bole anyway. So in patch 3.3 they made aspected helips noct stance better and then in 3.4 full blown with buffs to noct sect and in 4.0 some adjustments.