AST Wishlist for 5.0

[Seraphor]

My suggestions have literally nothing to do with making them like WHM. In fact, it's to make AST a lot less like WHM (and SCH) by removing the copy and paste regens and shields and give them a focus on quick succession direct heals (which also satisfies the whole Lightspeed/quick element people like about AST). Not only that, but my suggestion also included a sect change that allowed the AST to focus more on card play. But, then again I don't care what your wants are. This thread is asking what people want and I provided my own personal wishes (not that any of them will ever happen).

It's not 'having regens' that makes WHM suck, its having nothing but pure heals besides those two regens.
ASTs diurnal spells are also nothing like WHMs regens, they come with from loaded heals, which gives you two functions in one GCD and gives you the time to both manage cards and dps.

The ability to change sects between regen and shields is something I love about AST, being able to fit with any other healer.
It's also integral to it's lore, as several quests have you errecting barriers with Aspected Benefic.

These suggestions would completely destroy what AST currently is, and seem more suited for theory crafting an entirely new healer job.

I'd much rather AST stayed roughly how it is, then made the new healer a pure-healer with buffs.
Make the buffs better than ASTs, then AST maintains its position as the jack of all trades healer, but working around three philosophies instead of two.