Is there a reason Ast cant have the sects?

[ssunny2008]

Seriously this so called regen/barrier split is a farce. Unless I'm miscounting then Sage has 3 regens and 4 barriers.

This is a serious joke yeah. Imo playing Sage and i rarely use the buffed skills, maybe in downtimes or when things went nuts for whatever reason. All i use are the insta-heals and damage-reductions. A tank will get the x5 solo-barrier for big pulls or just on CD in raids. The x5 groupbarrier is safed for multistacks.
Sage is NO barrierheal. It´s just more of the same with less stuff to care about. The healer-categories are nonsense and there is no befenit to go with 1x regen / 1x barrier-healer, since the content doesn´t force us to heal that much, or to bring a barrier at all.

The nukedown on AST, the addition from SGE and the split into categories is just less work for SE. Ppl cried "We need a 4th healer." for whatever reason, as they cry that we need x other classes. But we don´t need them, we need improvements. Homogenization is the game-killer, not that we´ve not enough classes. But instead of improvements, SE copied & pasted the "original" healer design once again and made it even more forgivable and easy to play, meanwhile the playerbase lost more unique features on other classes. Low efford design = easy balance = less work... that´s all what SE wants.