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AST looks ok until you try the new skills for the other healers. SCH's Deployment Tactics for example is potentially a damage mitigation an AST can never hope to achieve, even with an expanded bole. Indomitability is a more powerful insta medica (no MP cost and oGCD). WHM's Asylum is slightly less powerful than Diurnal Collective Unconscious (tho it lasts longer), but you can move and act meanwhile. Luminiferous Aether is a nerfed version of Shroud of Saints (much more useful to have your enmity halved) and WHM's Assize is basically a free medica every 90 seconds and even restores own's MP! On top of that the only CD we can use to somewhat change the way we heal is freaking Lightspeed which reduces healing potency and this just means more mana problems. This is just freaking ridiculous! I'm not going to enter Alexander Savage with AST if it is not buffed considerably.