Quote Originally Posted by LariaKirin View Post
It is not gimped at all and you do not pay for it in healing options. AST's healing is very strong following the changes in patch 5.05. As I've said before, the healers are pretty well balanced right now and AST is just as strong as SCH/WHM. It will take a while for people to realize this, but it will happen.

We're overflowing with threads saying "Goodbye Astro", "AST is dead", etc... that discourage people for playing it. But soon enough some encouraging posts will surface. Such as the E4S noct AST solo heal.

As for doing more for the same effect ... Well ... Haven't people been complaining incessantly that there's nothing to do? You'd expect AST to be the darling of the community right now.
What was your favorite phrase? Get over it? You really seem to be banking on this "it will happen. It will take time. My opinion is already true and everyone is wrong and slow to realize." Here's the thing, the old system wasn't as busted as you seem to be claiming it was. At worst spire needed an adjustment and heaven forbid maybe balance into something else. Now we effectively have one of the clunkiest openers and a lot of busywork for what seems to be little payoff. Patch 5.05 fixed sleeve draw feeling god awful as well as "most" healing potencies (Square seems to have missed CU) but the complaints aren't about how well the class heals.