Quote Originally Posted by Lodi View Post
"You're spreading misinformation" sounds a lot like "You're lying" to me.

And keep in mind that even top AST are lagging behind the others. Why even bother redrawing cards, aligning seals and paying attention to the melee/ranged cards, when a WHM still does better by spamming 1 and 2?

The class is only good if you want to play a healer with low cast times, that's the only good thing it has.
If you so badly need 400 extra dps, just pick WHM. Or join another party.

There's litterally no point in optimising AST right now, because every other healer will do better with twice less effort. Seriously, a WHM/SCH spamming Glare/Broil alone will get more dps than an AST with Malefic, Combust and Earthly Star.

AST is the Ninja of healers right now, it needs serious changes. But because it's a healer, nobody cares.
Because its more fun to have something to manage and optimize compared to whm. I dont care if whm does more for less, when I find AST a far more interesting class to get the most out of.

And why does it seem like people undervalue the fact AST has lower cast times? With the buffs to their ogcd healing it makes AST incredibly flexible at providing heals to its group. If the fact AST can use its ogcd heals with little to no clipping means it can avoid making its cohealer have to force a weave slot then it's more then making up for what "0.5%" of group damage the cards provide." AST's strength is that it can enable its cohealer to heal less, and thus deal more damage.