Overall as an AST main, my rating is firmly...okay. The cards don't have MP regen (so now if shite hits the fan, I have lucid dreaming to mp regen) and the effects have little to no reason to even bother tossing them out anymore. Yes, the seals were a bit of a pain, but astrodyne made the speed and extra mp regen worth it.
I've started power-leveling SCH to take over MSQ because it's just not interesting enough to stay on. At this point, yay more AST players, but they lobotomized the class to the point WHM has more personality.