Quote Originally Posted by Saraphin View Post
You don't recall when it first came out, AST was out doing WHM at healing and DPS. I remember that in 3.5.
You are right though, WHM was definitely starting to be neglected ever since AST was buffed in 3.4, plus at the time both of AST primary dots ignored accuracy checks due to them not applying initial damage upon cast, so they could always provide that minimum damage and deal with healing consistently. Since late Heavenwsward an AST could provide 20% single target and 10% raidwide damage buffs for around 30~55s, very desirable during that 'skip-soar' era with 6dps 1tank 1 healer (or 5dps, 2healers). Stormblood was really bad for WHM, the lillies were implemented quite poorly with RNG on lillies and majority of patches in Stormblood did very little to no adjustments for WHM, meanwhile SCH had Chain Stratagem at this point and AST had Sleeve draw, and then also receiving QoL buffs like the one to malefic's cast time giving them extremely strong weaving space from that moment onward, Stormblood also had that whole issue of raid composition locking due to the piercing/striking debuffs which I'm glad they have done away with.