Quote Originally Posted by Minorinz View Post
Astro needs its own thing going on just like how sch is specialized with mitigation and whm with their heavy heals. Also why are astros' sects locked down in battle? I hope SE does something about astro very soon.
Although Sect-swapping on the fly wouldn't address AST's issue of mostly blah card buffs and missing healing cooldowns, it would certainly be a blast to have that kind of flexibility.

When AST was originally revealed, I rather imagined that its barrier stance would be stronger on the eHP side with fewer direct heals compared to the SCH's roughly equal healing/shield ratio, so I was disappointed to find that Noct AST's shielding was in most ways a weaker knock-off of SCH's. I had also hoped that Diurnal's HoT effects would have some mechanic like a detonation heal to separate them from those of WHM, but no dice there, either. Anyway, we'll see how SE continues to tweak AST to bring it past merely adequate and into competitive (hopefully).