In order to create a support-oriented healer who spends less time DPSing and more time buffing/healing, I proposed before a shift in AST's design that basically does the following:

- Splits Draw into 2 types of Draw actions, 1 that draws offensive cards, and 1 that draws support cards. Both have 2 charges, are independent of one another, and playing the card replaces that respective draw action. Both drawing and playing the card generates a stack on you to a max of 6.
- Celestial Intersection grants a temporary buff to you or an ally that allows the buffed ally's spells and weaponskills to trigger 1 of your stacks to perform an additional attack emanating from you that deals the same damage as your current malefic, essentially making your card draws and plays DPS neutral in addition to their effects.
- Card effects do not activate instantly. Instead, they sit on the person you've placed them on until activated. You can only have 1 offensive and 1 supportive card on a player at a given time.
- Celestial River and Celestial Opposition are minor AoE heals that activate offensive cards or supportive cards respectively (river for offensive, opposition for supportive), essentially making the card you've played an additional affect on the heal. (i.e. Celestial River was a 250 potency AoE heal and would activate The Balance, The Arrow, and The Spear on anyone you've played those cards on, and the same for Opposition on the other cards). This made planning and triggering buff effects more strategic, especially the supportive cards.

Overall, the idea here was to give AST GCD tools that would replace a lot of your direct DPS in order to simulate a more passive-focused healer so that people who don't want to be DPSing 80%-100% of the time with their GCDs have a healer whose playstyle respects the importance of DPS contribution, and that's really the key factor here. The content of XIV demands healer DPS contributions as often as they currently are. We can create a passive healer, but they MUST contribute still. They just need to be able to do that indirectly.