Quote Originally Posted by Triston View Post
I really don't think it's possible to create WHM/AST comps with Noct AST as currently designed, no matter how many buffs it's given. It will need a near-full overhaul of how all the abilities work while in Nocturnal Stance in order to have a chance at knocking SCH off its throne, and it's quite clear that SE isn't in any rush to redesign the job.

Well, either that or an additional supplement to WHM to make IT the off-healer and let AST/WHM comps become a thing. Regardless of the solution, it'll require significant dev time to rework WHM or N.AST to have the barest hope of replacing a SCH. Until then, SCH mains rejoice, you are mandatory.
My new raid group has been trying out N.AST/WHM composition, since i really love AST and a bit sick of playing SCH since 2.0. To call it messy would be a bit of an understatement. Healing is never ever an issue, the output of that comp is through the roof. The ability to stance dance as a N.AST is very messy compared to SCH. For single target healing you can drop clerics, use essential dignity the hop back into clerics. But you cna only do this every 40 secs. And there is nothing making up for the fairy. What i am finding the biggest issue is constantly dropping global cooldown compared SCH. So a SCH can drop clerics, Indomnibility the go back into clerics all without triggering the gloabl cooldown, thus making it so you can do this between attack spells. N.AST can not do this at all. The best you can manage is drop clerics, swiftcast a helios/aspected helios, trigger the global cooldown, hop back into clerics. Also Collected Unconscious vs SCH equivalent is also a gloabl cooldown loss to N.AST. Also factor in the amount of healin the N.AST themselves has to do to compensate for no fairy, and then you have a dps loss as well.

I wish N.AST/WHM would function as well as WHM/SCH but sadly it comes no where near.