Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[RaeyFonzur]

Base potencies aren't actually lower. When you go into a stance, the stance bonuses bring them up to par. If you were to play without a stance on then yes they would be, but the tooltips only have slightly lower numbers because you're expected to have one of the two stances on and then the healing spells are all equal.

I agree with this while in Nocturnal Stance, but Diurnal forces you to use more mp. It would definitely feel better though if AST had base potencies without the stance buffs.

Where the AST is lacking is in proper emergency cooldowns for heavy healing situations, along with minor tweaks to how the cards work.

This is why AST can never replace WHM or SCH in its current state even if they buffed their base potencies. AST needs something powerful and unique that involves healing, not its RNG card system.