Astro over whm ? I think not

[NocturniaUzuki]

But. Because that's the point of the end-game, really. DPSing. Nothing else. You have a raid boss, you must burn it before it burns you. Healing and Tanking are almost incidental, that's just the safety net of making sure party survives, but they also have to put out DPS most of the time. The cards can really only have that effect, as HyoMinPark explained.
It all goes back under the same argument : as long as a fight will not push healers to heal more, they will be DPSing. And to make that a bit less boring, you can either give them more DPS tools or raidDPD buffs. That's what SCH and AST have been growing towards in Stormblood, and that's very good in my opinion.
I've been healer main, and even if I'm not very good, I enjoyed healing Savage / Extreme because my AST had something more to do. I tried once with White Mage and it was more frustrating than anything.
So please don't touch AST cards, they are fine (even if Spire needs to change a bit I guess). Bring White Mage to that level of fun healing.

If fights don't push healers, make it harder. There's nothing stopping you. Have you solo-healed Ultimate yet? In those situations, I should think you might be more conscious of things besides DPS. Solo-healing in general is a lot more intensive. A good pair of duo healers generally don't even need GCD heals most of the time.

Anyways, like I said it may be true that it boils down to DPS in the minds of end-game players. At least insofar as standard content is concerned. But that's a minority of players. And regardless of how the cards are changed, they will find new ways to make most of them "useless" again. So why balance for that mindset? It's a self-inflicted issue on your part.

[HyoMinPark]

that it boils down to DPS in the minds of end-game players. At least insofar as standard content is concerned. But that's a minority of players. And regardless of how the cards are changed, they will find new ways to make most of them "useless" again. So why balance for that mindset? It's a self-inflicted issue on your part.

Why do we need to balance around the low-end/non-raider mindset?