Quote Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX View Post
It doesn't need a total overhaul. If we had a way to buff our own healing temporarily or a way to shove our missing healing to the other healer, our healing would be fine. If cards were more reliable or more effective, they would be fine, too. Neither of those need a total reworking of the class.
They really do though.
The whole problem with astro right now is it's stances are very nearly a direct copy of WHM and SCH, even their dps kit is a lesser version of aero, aero 2, stone 3, and holy
They are so close to the classes they mimic that as it stands now with nothing but number tweaking AST will either be inferior to the classes it mimics giving it no real place or it will be superior and replace both of them. Both outcomes are terrible for the game as a whole

If they made it a unique healer with similar output capabilities to the other healers instead of a mimic it would be more balance-able

I have played it on all levels and outside of being an oddly amazing pvp healer it really falls short of the other healers by a mile. It's kind of funny how it's weaknesses get highlighted when you play the same content with it and other healers. Like oppressor in savage when i'm on scholar i absolutely love being targeted by the prey, it's like he's trying to make it easy on me. When i'm on astro it feels like a worst case scenario to be the prey target