Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Well, a word to the wise: These forums can be kind of negative/salty. The Healer subforum is PARTICULARLY bad at this. To take it with a grain of salt.

People have cleared PotD on AST (apparently it IS the hardest/most grindy to do, but HAVE done it), and if someone can do that, everything else in the game you want to do with AST you can do with AST. But I am hoping they do something about the soloing with Healers bit. I always level on Healers and do new expansions and MSQ stuff on Healers generally (in the very rare instances I don't, I do it on Tanks, the second lowest DPS Role), and have often done so without BiS gear, especially before ShB back when I was often in dungeon greens since I didn't do a lot of harder content, so it is all doable.

And yeah, AST has a pretty neat aesthetic and class fantasy. I'm more of a SCH kinda guy, but I can definitely see the appeal of AST and am glad to hear you're having fun with it in general.
The oft-quoted "people" have cleared PotD on AST. Well- so what? How many out of all the jobs have done it on AST, and of those people, how much longer did it take them on AST in comparison to the other jobs? I would be willing to bet that it's the least number in comparison to any other job, and it took the longest to clear. So it could make it interesting for someone from an achievement point of view (i.e. they want to complete it on all jobs) - but it could be really off-putting for many people who find it a miserable slog. Which is similar to other things that you might want to solo on an AST- are they possible? Yes- are they fun? - not necessarily, in comparison to other jobs.

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