Healer DPS Identity Ideas for 6.0

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Your thinking is flawed. If you advocate WHM and SCH getting skills to make their DPS go up / introduce complex DPS options, but then nerf AST's combust and make them get a special buff only when they card themselves to make up for the combust DPS nerf, then they really haven't been buffed in solo duties since their overall damage from the combust nerf and card buff will average out back to the same - making ASTs still horrendous to play in solo duties. There's also no point in carding yourself multiple times either since the buffs will overwrite each other and all you'll be doing is still spamming one single button over and over again until the next card window.

How is that any different to spamming one single button over and over until you need to refresh your DoT?
Draw comes off cooldown as each card effect runs out, the only exception being Sleeve Draw.
The difference is the 'DoT' alternative has a management aspect to it, to get your three seals.
AST already has the most interesting DPS rotation out of the healers, even with the ShB simplification to the card effects. If the cards are regarded as a DoT analogue (a repeated action on a medium cooldown of 30s that results in sustained damage contribution) then AST already has 2 functional DoTs, while SCH only has one...

I did say increase the card buffs.
If the increase in card buffs matches the decrease in Combust in a solo situation, then when applied to a party, that increase in card buffs will be a net buff in damage contribution.
AST, just like every other job, can manage existing solo duties just fine, the goal is merely not to reduce their solo damage, which is what I've proposed.

If each healers personal DPS kit is going to be balanced with each other, then Cards are only going to see their effects nerfed time and time again. Thus to find away to capitalise on Cards as the AST's identity, they need to be incorporated into their personal DPS.