I really like AST right now. It's one of my favorite classes.

I won't be playing AST in ShB. It has none of the soul of the class I fell in love with. I'll be tempted to, just so that my anima weapon doesn't go to waste... but I don't know if SE will truly realize how pissed many of us are if drastic action isn't taken.

What kind of drastic action? KEEP YOUR HEALER OUT OF GROUP CONTENT IN 5.0. Run group content with something else. Eat the queues if you only have DPS, or perhaps try out GNB - tanking is easier than you think, GNB starts at lvl 60, and it even has a party healing ability!

I'll forgive WHM for breaking the picket, but SCH and especially AST have been massacred. If our jobs just vanish from the duty finder, and people start seeing "Adventurer in Need: Healer" more often than "AiN: Tank", it will have greater force than 100000 futile forum posts.