Quote Originally Posted by deusdormit View Post
I think Astrologian is very nearly par. Hence alot of the suggestions are fairly small save the shield buff and even SE has acknowledged the aggro problems they have. But as it stands I look in the party finder and more often than not astrologian is locked out.
I raid with an AST in savage, it's very much so on par with the other healers. The only reason people want Noct. buffed is because there seems to be this idea floating around that AST must be a good replacement for WHM/SCH as opposed to letting them have their own identity. As for 'progress', dual SCH and WHM groups are also rather suboptimal, so there's no reason dual AST should be permissible.

Unfortunately, similarly to the lolDRG mentality, AST started out bad and so people who know nothing about the job or healing still have that mindset when it comes to the job, hence the hate. This alone, in my opinion, does not validate buffs as there's a huge risk they will become OP and then the other 2 jobs will cry. Something small like enmity reduction is a buff worth talking about, but I agree with the previous poster that nerfs would need to be seen if they want to buff AST any further.