Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
Wow, this feels exactly like the WHM threads back in 3.0 talking about WHMs lack of identity and basically being a worse AST...
It's the problem with trying to make a class that is explicitly a hybrid of of two others. There is basically only 3 states of balance that can exist: AST is weaker at both shielding and pure healing than SCH/WHM; AST is simply the best healer with both high throughput and good shielding; or it's better at one and worse at the other.

So long as it continues to be a hybrid class instead of having it's own healing identity, it will always just be "WHM/SCH but better/worse."