So, patch notes are out, and as expected, I will probably drop AST now since the class changed into something horrible that I hate.

Yeah yeah the buffs to the buffs are nice and all. Noct shields are just too OP now, no more reason to ever play this class in Diurnal again.
Also, the only thing that ever made AST fun to play was that it was a SPEEDY healer. Now they take that away to give us...crit? 15% crit is the chance I have with every normal cast anyway >.>
Now we'll be just as slow as any other healer and maybe get a big heal from time to time that will take ages to cast by which time the tank will be dead anyway already.

I can't even put into words how pissed I am about these changes....