Quote Originally Posted by Yhisa View Post
Yeah problem is that people want to be OP and feel strong.... AST is strong but lacks cooldowns to increase there own healing....and thus give us the idea that ast is weak because we not healing to the other healer standards

Now everyone should group up with a SCH and WHM and just heal each other WITHOUT using cooldowns and u will see that they all heal just as equally,,,,, then start to use cooldowns afterward then this is where u will see AST will fall behide hard
The fact is asts don't have nearly as many oh shit buttons as whm/scholar do, people don't want to make asts op they want to make asts balanced with whm and sch in one way or another and that includes more oh shit buttons. The fact is nocturnal stance is trash it lacks the ability to crit like scholar shields the potency is lower and it raises the overall mp cost and its virtually useless with a scholar in the party which most raid parties have end game.

You also say that the healing potency is fine, the regen potency in diurnal stance is fine but the overall heal potencies for skills are lower and the cards do not make up for that considering they're rng based any way you look at it. Also both of the other healing classes has a healing boost skill that boosts by over 10% and doesn't increase the mp cost where ast does not, that's another place they fall behind, ast has nocturnal stance, 5% boost, higher mp cost.