Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Leiloni]

Even if Succor is only 150 potency its still more reliable than helios to hit each target. Emergency Tactics is a thirty second cooldown and lasts 15 seconds. Seems pretty consistent to me. Turns your succor into a medica equivalent, meanwhile your pet is auto curing every low party members. If you just shuffle whispering dawn and tactics you will never run out of a cooldown you need for aoe healing, or you could just succor twice because SCH have almost no mana problems compared to the other healers. On top of that you have idomitability which is literally better than medica. Your supposed to rely on your options on SCH, thats the point of the class. Saying that AST doesnt need to rely on cooldowns is obvious, that should be the case. AST aren't SCH. We dont even have half the options scholars have. So of course we don't have to rely on cooldowns. What would we use? Lightspeed?

What are you complaining about? AST have equivalent heals - Helios=Medica, Aspected Helios =Medica II or Succor, depending on stance. Single target heals also compare to both. Math was done one page ago to show why everything remains equal in terms of potency/GCD.

Helios and Aspected Helios can be spammed so base AoE output is fine. Essential Dignity is very useful for single target burst when necessary and the Benefic II proc if the timing is right (and Benefic II proc could be used to save your ED cooldown, or replace it if it's already on CD). Freecure feels like it's up all the time on my WHM and in Diurnal Sect you're casting more Benefic with the speed buff anyway, so the proc should be up often enough for some reliable single target burst.

The thing in terms of healing that AST doesn't have enough of is emergency cooldowns like Divine Seal. Lightspeed needs fixing to do something about the magic potency debuff because that makes it useless outside of recasting Stoneskin or something (which I do use it for a lot). Collective Unconscious looks a bit strange too and I think everybody agrees on the card related changes that are needed.

However, SCH was in the same boat comparatively in terms of AoE heals pre-3.0 and they did perfectly fine. I remember leveling SCH after my WHM and noticing the difference in AoE healing capability, but SCH's all still got through the 4 man content fine and in 8 man you'll have another healer to help out.

As for mana problems, they have the same mana cooldown that WHM had pre 3.0 and WHM always did fine, but AST's is on a shorter CD.

If they can fix the emergency CDs and card skills, the class would be fine.