AST - Making an Easy Healer

[ty_taurus]

If there is any healer that should be easy (IE low skill floor and ceiling and no kit interactivity) its sage as it was designed for EW's super low requirements

I disagree with this point. From a lore standpoint, Sage is supposed to be one of if not the most challenging disciplines that we know of currently. From a gameplay standpoint, a player is required to have reached level 70 to unlock the job, and while that doesn't mean that much in practice, it does make it the least accessible to a new healer. Sage should be a lot like Gunbreaker--effective but challenging to pull off correctly. It's not just that it has a busy DPS rotation, Gunbreaker's demand for weaving makes it harder to properly position bosses, and that's an element of nuance that Gunbreaker players take pride in mastering. Perhaps that requires slashing off its Scholar imitation buttons or changing them to work differently.

I definitely feel that Astrologian should be the healer to appeal to players that don't like DPS healers, but I don't think that means it needs to be simple or the easiest to play either, and it still needs to have a solid answer to solo play.

White Mage, being immediately accessible to a new player, should be the most approachable healer. That said, I also stand vehemently against the idea that it's fine as-is, and needs to have room to optimize, but should also be forgiving.