Quote Originally Posted by Ghishlain View Post
Oh, I don't disagree about your point regarding the ease of the AST kit and the power you can get out of it and how it should be discussed as a balancing point.

My post was more about how I appreciate the thought that the top tier players have to go through in order to eck out that additional 0.0000001% damage (value exaggerated, I honestly dunno how much it actually changes). I could never play to that level of thought but I like reading about it as I've tried my hand at theorycrafting card selection based on tool kits.

I think it says a lot that, even if you were to never touch your cards, AST (and by extension SCH and Chain / Fey Wind) would still be able to out DPS WHM and thus add more rDPS than the "pure healer" job in the game.
I did make an edit to my original post, because I realize that I sounded a bit like a tool who didn't appreciate Jinhzu's breakdown of truly optimal card use vs "good enough for the other 99.9% of the game" card use. While I still maintain that the job is too easy for the 99.9%, that still doesn't make their points about the top .1% factually wrong, especially when talking about the job's skill ceiling rather than floor.