Quote Originally Posted by Vill_Castiglioni View Post
And your oversight is to how I stated that it is lower potency and is more difficult to play ON PURPOSE. They aren't going to make it easier, because that wasn't what they wanted or planned on when they created the job. It is a complex job, where you must use all your skills correctly and timely to be successful.
Outside of the card mechanic the job is very simple. Making the job significantly weaker on it's main role (healing) is not making it "more complex." It's just making it worse than SCH/WHM. If AST could heal as well as SCH/WHM minus the use of cards or the use of healing buffs, then AST would be comparable. But it can't because its potencies are lower across the board in Diurnal, it lacks a way to stabilize the group, and it has nothing to fall back on when shit hits the fan. Nocturnal Stance makes the potencies exactly the same as Cure I/Cure II, but in that case your shield is awful and you still don't have as many tools to help with your healing.