Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
Except that whatever you do to fix the situation has to be nocturnal specific; as you say "diurnal is very powerful", so unless the changes only affect nocturnal to help it catch up, it'll only make diurnal even moreso.
The thing is, imo, that if you balance AST's stances separate from each other, NoctAST is going to continue being the mess it currently is. The point of buffing NoctAST is to give AST a better use as an off-healer, right? At least that's what people in this thread are saying. I'm not saying my ideas are the end-all for possible AST solutions, but letting them stance dance while also giving them more manageable DPS would make all these variables within the class much more valuable too.

I mean, to be fair, if AST had the choice to change to regens or shields every X seconds, some skills might have to be retooled slightly for balance, such as the effects of Collective Unconscious and some others, much like the Aspected spells or Equilibrium on WAR, but giving AST all these options while at the same time buffing its DPS potential through MP management would fix a lot of these undeserved misgivings the class has within the community.

It's kind of the same principle that currently makes Scholar so powerful: lots of tools, lots of utility, lots of different things to give to the raid; but without making it a complete copy-paste of the class and giving it a very unique playstyle among the three healers.