Raid DPS Contribution is IMPORTANT

[Hustensaft]

Plus, it looks like AST is losing AoE cards, so the rDPS contribution may not be as much.

Here is the sad part people don't see: AST cards and Stratagem aren't all that huge in rDPS gains, they're 2 or 1% rDPS gains. If you look back in WoW history when unique buffs still existed, you had values in a range of about 5% rDPS gain per buff (e.g. 5% crit at 100% critdamage).

In the current setting, the new black lily damage ability, if available every 30 sec, would need to be about 300 potency to equal whatever raid dps gain Chain Stratagem provides. It's fairly hard to argue for "WHM needs dps utility", when such a simple yet seemingly weak DPS button can provide an equal rDPS gain.

It looks more like all healers are reduced down to a single target dps spell, and one dot, and one AoE ability - which can easily balanced against each other.
Then you have further homogenization in healing toolkits (e.g more instants for WHM), so the usage of DPS spells is overall more equal across healer setups.
At that point you have to balance cards vs. stratagem vs. black lily for raid DPS contribution.

In general, they seem to have gone for full homogenization in heal and DPS toolkit to balance healers, instead of actually fixing the underlying issues.

[Metsonm]

Here is the sad part: AST cards and Stratagem aren't all that massive in gain, they're 2 or 1% rDPS gains. If you look back in WoW history when unique buffs still existed, they were in a numerical range of about 5% (e.g. 5% crit at 100% critdamage).

The new black lily damage ability, if available every 30 sec, would need to be about 300 potency to equal whatever raid dps gain Chain Stratagem provides. There's absolutely no reason to cry for raid DPS utility with the Black Lily ability.

We don't even know the full extent of the kits or their potencies for any of the classes yet. We can't begin to work out how much personal or raid DPS any class brings, let alone how much disparity there is in balance. For all we know SCH also gets a new DPS toy to match.