AST : some people say...

[Teraluna]

Astro is basically WHM-Lite. (ok a bit tongue in cheek here :-)

If you've been playing a whm for ages, why the heck would you want to spend Groundhog days doing nearly the same thing lvl after lvl.
Ok, it's got some differences, but it's half the whm.
In fact as you start off it is the whm, and shows they where really stretched introducing three new classes simultaneously together with all the other expansion work.

They've said they'll not be doing 3x classes again as it was too much. So it appears the lesson's there.

I was looking forward to some real differentiation with a new healing class, possibly even with some new cross class abilities that could be taken up by the sch & whm.
Unfortunately the Astro gave nothing to the other two healers, just taking the same well trodden ones.

Hopefully this reduction in simultaneous class launches will result in significant differentiation to any new healer introduced in the future.
It would be really good if it could be accompanied with new cross class skills that could be taken up by the sch/whm - adding a spark of newness to those classes at the same time.