So like, perhaps I'm not the person to say this, but playing Ast feels bad man. As a SCH main, I've always looked side-eyed at the competition. It's the first 80 I got. ATM, I'm leveling my trust buddies so I picked WHM, AST, RDM, and BRD to help out. I'm basically leveling WHM and AST together, and after leveling SCH, I really can say AST feels so WEAK. I don't mind the card change too much (though divination has a stupid long CD) but everything else is funky. Especially the DPS spells. What's the point of gravitation? Can I haz 'chuck wet noodles at target' spell? I'm sure it would do more damage. I've been running in noct sect and the shields are shitty. The heals feel weak. I didn't want to jump onto the 'ast sucks' train but jfc man. I feel for you all. You need buffs like right now. There's absolutely no comparison to WHM. It's so ridiculous leveling the two at the same time. AST feels SO much weaker in every way. There needs to be a 'save the wild ast's' fund to help this endangered and beleaguered job. =x