5.05 Healer Changes

[Lagomorph]

On the contrary. AST has been meta when its personal DPS has been low before (See Stormblood yet again). But then when AST's personal DPS gets buffed up, then it just goes completely off the charts and makes the others (well, WHM) irrelevant.

If you want to play a healer with excellent personal DPS, play WHM.

If you want to play a healer with excellent buffing, play AST.

Even if specific numbers need slight tweaks - This is balance and this is the way it should be. I hope AST is never the best at everything again. Because no healer should be.

Ast never was the best at everything. I'm not sure how you and a few others have deluded yourselves into thinking that. It's fine if ast is the "buffs" healer. But their buffs are not strong enough to make up for how weak malefic/combust are. Also realistically there are two metrics that matter: healing output and raid dps contribution. Whm was the best in both of these areas. I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that no healer should be the best at everything?

What do you mean irrelevant? The very reason why AST personal DPS is so low is because their raid utility is so high. You can't have it both ways.

It is not having it both ways. Ast needs their personal dps combined with their contributions with buffs to be at least close to the other healers. It can be a little behind, that's fine. I'm saying that it will still be far behind. If you disagree with this, then just way a few days and see for yourself.

[Risvertasashi]

I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that no healer should be the best at everything?

Late stormblood AST did more personal DPS than WHM, did more raid buffing than WHM, and was the only healer to solo heal ultimate content while also having much greater mobility than WHM.

Now technically you can say 'But holy spam was better for dungeons!' or 'AST shields weren't the best!' and yeah that's true, but in all major areas AST was outperforming. And it was meta before the 4.3 AST buffs let it do all of that at once.

If AST's raid buffs are far behind in total contribution, they'll get buffed again.