can you all tell im an ast main

ok rant over. i hope. my god i just want my pretty moon shield stance back. :(

(ignoring that the shields were pitiful and that neutral stance exists now which ISNT THE SAME ITS NOT THE SAMEEEEE and a healer who does both effectively would ruin the meta so ast just did NEITHER well is. rip)

i just press divination and i get a single admittedly cool aoe attack but THATS IT?????????? girl come on the actual stupid seal collecting minigame is like, 2% more interesting than that at least (even if rng is an ass thing to incorporate when you think about - its still something to engage with!)

DT era jobs are........... fine. they really are. rotations are possible, and you cant really mess up anything in a sense, just need to get timing down for endgame stuff. but it all blends into a homogeneous mush mechanically rip

also i love the new oracle skill for ast i do but THATS IT? rip...

ultimately lol things lowkey sounded cooler in early-SHB/pre-SHB days for jobs, but understandably (even if lamely), it got removed for the sake of less jank playability and uniform, easier mechanical tweaking on the devside rip

and honestly same goes for white mage/conj - the stance switching from way back, while complete jank ass to actually work with at times, was still mechanically a really fun thing and i honestly wish something of the sort was still there for it, even if thats kinda impossible

i get that the devs really wanted to make sure the job was both playable and not absolute jank/broken to align with in terms of buffs and mechanics (i heard what happened to the time mage spells........... i get it, but also. that sucks man) - but the flavorrrrrrr

Universal Red Flag #2: if an adult ever posits themselves as "I'm a SAFE adult, not like those OTHER adults online", get the immediate fuck out.