How would you change Nocturnal AST to be competitive against SCH?

[Yona87]

While not broken, its identity is extremely strong. Let's apply your logic to focusing AST as an off healer with the main healer idea being removed.
IMO, WHM being the main healer is its identity. I feel SE struggles to balance AST as a main healer due to the fact it can buff while having WHM level healing. That idea in itself is dangerous for the health of WHM and AST.

WHM= burst healing, regen
AST (diurnal) = burst healing, regen, buffs
SCH= mitigation, dps, faerie

Give AST too much healing and proper balancing, bye bye white mage due to it's additional buffing nature. I feel that AST's best chance at proper balance would be to compete with SCH simply because SCH is a strong, healthy competitor.

Thanks for reading!

I disagree, AST should compete ONLY with WHM, while SCH reigns as the only off-healer. Thanks