Quote Originally Posted by Vlady View Post
Astrologian is not lacking as a healer. If they make astrologians on par with white mage then why bring a white mage when you can bring a job that has equivelent heal strength and ability to buff an entire party with the myriad of buffs the Astrologian has access.
WHM will always be the best burst/AOE/HOT healer - even if AST is buffed. WHM shines in self DPS over buffing the group.

SCH provides just as much DPS increase to a raid as AST (See math from previous posts) and can dish out WAY more healing/support. Not only does AST only have a 250 POT shield, when SCH has 350 - AST does not even have the pet embrace heals - or Rouse/POT increase.

The buffs that AST brings are not nearly strong enough to justify how much they lack in the healing dept. They either need a buff to cards or a buff to healing. I would rather see them have more to offer in the healing dept. As it is AST struggles healing level 58 dungeons. They will not be competitive as is once the newness fades.