How could you do this to AST?

[ty_taurus]

Yup because I refuse to be now just a pure heal(boring regens) and nothing more at that point they just slighty stronger weaving whms which is sad , ah well already packing and preparing up stuff for sage, barrier heals will always be my thing anyday, as long as they make it one of their barrier instant cast like ast aspected benefic then am all for that.

I really don't see what about barriers specifically makes a job appealing any more or less than a regen does. At the end of the day, none of the jobs have ever been defined by their regens or barriers, but rather the other things that they are capable of doing. White Mage was the power healer, Scholar was the DPS healer, AST was the buffing healer. Who knows what that will look like in 6.0, but AST's gameplay changes will have little to do with the lack of barriers and have everything to do with how they tackle the hatred for the Card System. And if they do nothing about it, then it will play virtually the same as it does now.