Raid DPS Contribution is IMPORTANT

[raerae]

Interesting opinion. Too bad you choose not to share anything to support it.

I think it's pretty true. AST/SCH interact too well together with indom and earthly star, and it's always been a matter of AST or WHM + SCH, not WHM + SCH or AST. This was only untrue in one fight in all of SB and it really boiled down to the expansion being new and the world first teams playing what they were most comfortable with. I've firmly settled by now that SE really doesn't want Noct to be as good as or better than SCH, either.

The oGCD kits of SCH and AST together trivialize savage healing with the current encounter design which is a lot of downtime between instances of raid damage, they just have such a large amount of combined powerful cooldowns that make it to where you don't even really need to plan your healing out with your cohealer very much, the AST just finds where they want their first star if it needs to be a little late into the pull at all, then drops it more or less on CD and you have everything else to be used inbetween star usages.

Post-buffs AST is a billion times better in ultimates, too.