How could you do this to AST?

[Yeol]

They should change AST cards & abilities to the way they were before.
Yes AST was OP, Let it be.

The majority of people still used WHM for the world race clears back in HW. Then replace WHM with AST for speed/log runs.
What does this mean? All healers can clear content week 1. End of story.

This should be the main focus point and not speed/log runs statistics.

Casuals complained about AST because they wanted better representation of WHM in speed/log runs too.
WHM was still the better option over AST in a casual group. You needed a good group to pair AST with.

Changing a job simply because of speed/log runs is very silly. Why try to make all jobs very similar at the top 1% too?
This takes out the fun from the game. Job changes should happen to make sure that all jobs can clear content week 1.

AST had its share of problems on release. It had weaker heals compared to WHM and weaker shields compared to SCH. It also had mana issues. It explains why you needed a very good group to play AST. Over time they closed the gap between AST and the other healers in terms of heals and shields.

They made a big mistake when they kept buffing AST heals (multiple times) to compete with WHM. The only thing left for WHM was cure III. This is when people dumped WHM and took AST because you hardly ever needed to use Cure III.