Quote Originally Posted by basketofseals View Post
Stun is only up every two minutes, while WHM gets theirs every pull, but balance is nice when you get it. My problem is that AST has to blow lots of cooldowns to do what the other healers can just do with the normal abilities. Again, it's not bad, it's just a lot of trouble for not really any pay off.
Lets not forget healer balance here. AST draws the short straw (a little) when it comes to DPS as they can buff other DPS classes to do more damage. If they were to give ASTs DPS on par with WHM, what does WHM get to compensate that change? There's a reason why all jobs differ slightly, if you give AST the ability to do everything a WHM can AND have card buffs you practically render one of the most iconic jobs in this game useless.

I've played all healers in Savage and I can quite easily say AST requires nothing after the buffs they got. They are possibly the most difficult to play of the three healers, but that doesn't validate a need for buffs, it simply requires a skilled player behind the screen.