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Yes, I heared the rest of that, too. Which is part of why I said they don't learn from their mistakes. They released AST pretty weak, and ended up overbuffing it just as they ultimately overbuffed WHM in XI. I don't want them to overbuff WHM in turn now, but I can't see how they would balance healers without giving WHM something besides healing. I don't want to see any healer have a mandatory raid spot.

However, I, personally, can say that the party finders I followed back in 3.0 never excluded AST. All raids I have seen back then wanted either AST or WHM since, well, trololol fairy and DPS saved SCH that spot. My own group actually ran WHM/AST and, hey, it worked. We both felt AST needs a slight buff, but even my partner agreed that they overdid it in the end.