Trying to make more people play AST than WHM is always going to be pointless

healer is the rarest role but WHM is the most popular class in the game and it’s because it’s one of the oldest classes in FF and has remained almost unchanged through its many iterations

AST is just always going to be last because it’s really competing with SGE and SCH for play numbers but it exists in a space where WHM saps its potential playerbase

SGE or SCH would have to do something pretty badly wrong to ever be in contention for last place with AST