I used to suggest that, if the cards were made more potent, AST could get by on its ability to end phases faster.

Now, however, I've changed my tune and I feel like AST needs to be at 90% of SCH/WHM's 100% emergency healing power.

In the end, we're HEALERS. Our job is to keep the group alive, and no amount of card buffs that moderately help with DPS are going to fix that.