Some 4.3 feedback from a healer

[Elamys]

Yeah? Then tell me; why does Lightspeed shouldn't be a DPS cooldown and Presence of Mind should, if both were made, intentionally, to heal in a critic situation?

The reason AST didn't do damage like this before isn't because our casts got faster or because our potencies got increased, it's because our MP prevented us from doing so. Spamming Gravity was far too draining. Both Thin Air and now Lightspeed are intended to be MP management cooldowns more than anything, not DPS or even healing cooldowns.

Moreover, the usefulness of a cooldown to increase the speed of healing spells is suspect at best, though AST had been behind in that department in comparison to WHM, which has numerous instant spells, while AST really only had Essential Dignity and Earthly Star (if it was set up already). As you mentioned, it was best to click it off in about 2 casts just so you could go back to DPSing. You shouldn't really be comparing Presence of Mind and Lightspeed because I think Thin Air is much more what Lightspeed's usage has now been modeled off of.

When you look at Lightspeed's design as being intended to help an AST manage MP, it makes a lot less sense why we are able to do so much damage because of it. Remember, AST had the weakest MP management before because you want to minimize Ewer usage as much as possible. We basically only had Lucid Dreaming and some usage of Lightspeed, but a 25% MP cost reduction wasn't nearly as useful as it is now.

WHM has specifically been designed to be the pure healer that also brings in a lot of damage, as Square Enix has claimed. AST brings so much party damage to the table with cards that its personal DPS should not rival WHM. I don't think they intended for this to happen, they just wanted to reduce the clunkiness of the ability, but regardless, it is what has happened. As far as solutions to this, I don't really want them to revert the changes since they are good from a playstyle perspective, probably would rather have them reduce potencies.