Quote Originally Posted by CorbinDallas View Post
That's exactly what I said? Cast time =/= global cooldown. While a WHM using a GCD only spends that entire GCD healing, an AST, with the 1.5s cast on Malefic, can DPS and off globally heal within the same GCD. How do you not know that?

A WHM can literally only weave by using Aero and Regen, and using an off global any other time results in clipping and is a DPS loss, AST doesn't suffer from the same problems and this will be even more apparent in SHB with them gaining even more off global healing, while WHM's new toys are all on the GCD.
And yet.. the thing most of us who HATE the changes to Astro's, Dont give a flying Lalafel about the DPS changes. Its the gutting of the entire card system down to what is essentially 1 skill you use to buff a single target, that is used to unlock a 2nd skill that is just a aoe version of the first new skill. The UI element may as well not exist for any reason other than to make it 'seem' as if it is more complicated than that.

Which is why i said im just going to level up WHM instead, because if all they are going to degenerate my Astro into is a healer with a single damage buff skill, i may as well play the WHM as it has the stronger heals, and will be just as boring to play as the 5.0 Astro is going to be. But again, stronger heals... so at least im 'gaining' something by switching, rather than loosing everything.