How could you do this to AST?

[ssunny2008]

Sry if i repeat something, but i don´t have time to scroll and read through 12 pages imo.

I´m fully with OP. It´s sad to say that AST is going to be changed once again and losing pretty much the rest of his uniqueness. It´s not even about "meta-play" or balancing. Even if noct has worse shields than a SCH and diu might be the overall better choice, it does its job and for badass mechanics everyone can use neutral. To take that from AST away is a bad thing.
It´s something which is up to the players choice and preference. You was able to adjust to your Co-heal or to different bosses as you thought "it´s better to play noct/diu this time." Again, it might doesn´t match perfectly in numbers to be called balanced, but it worked. To get ride of such variety and players decision making is a step back in game design. It´s the same with the cards before. "All for the damage!". Why not change the cards that you can hold more cards at once and cards you already own can´t appear anymore? So you could´ve always give the tank the damage reduction at tank busters or dps at burst phases meanwhile searching for new cards? No... all have to become simpler until the last guy on earth can press this one button...

It´s sad and it shows once again how stubborn and uninspired SE can be. They don´t want to give the players more than one option to play different classes. They force them into that major role until every tank, every heal, every dps plays and feels pretty much the same. This is a big mistake in my eyes and lots of different MMO´s do a way better job here. That the player can choose between different skill upgrades or stances by his own, situational or preference based is a good thing! Even if a metabuild will appear and balancing might be a bit harder, variety and uniqueness is what all classes need in FF14, that´s what SE can´t get in their head and probably one big reason why 99% don´t give af about PvP too.

R.I.P AST, i don´t want to play a WHM 2.0 version.