Thread: Everything wrong with 5.3 AST sleeve draw [Translated JP duplicate thread]

Originally Posted by hiz

You are making no sense. How is losing 2 cards per 3 minutes not a DPS nerf? What matters if it still outDPSs other jobs, it's still a nerf is it not? And what makes you think logs post partition at this point are in any way indicative of job strength when pretty much no top tier player has pulled properly yet?

I never said it was not a nerf.

I said AST is not suffering. It's still doing extremely high damage.

As for the data's validity - most jobs right now have over 1000 logs submitted (Some very unpopular jobs, like Monk and Bard, are still under 1k at the time of this writing. AST is not one of these). Yes, that's not the highest, and it will increase over time. However, keep in mind we're in a raid tier where almost everyone's familiar with the fights, people are geared instead of progging, etc etc. Don't expect the data to move much once we have weeks' or months' worth.

One way or another, we are already seeing that AST is extremely strong with any significant sample size, and there's a very small number of white mages in the world (not enough to have statistical significance in a percentile category) that can go slightly higher. Exactly as it was pre-5.3.

It's fine, of course, if you don't like the simplification of the patch and preferred pre-5.3 busy-ness. But AST is not hurting for DPS.