Healers, then and now:

[Connor]

This Is what i HATE the most. I am a player (and former main AST) and i DID NOT wanted It ti change. You cant generalize all ppls.

Dont care if i am a filthy casual or what.. they, as usual, could have done something to make the class work without destroing it's divining identity (with time mage aspects), and instead decidere to take the lazy route

I feel like the ‘time aspect’ removal from Astrologian’s identity is another symptom of the devs desperate attempt to maintain absolute balance (which cannot be maintained without standardising literally everything lol). Extra 15s on a party member’s buff? Unbalanced.
Extra 5 sec on all nearby party member buffs? Unbalanced.
Astrologians having fun? You guessed it, Unbalanced lol.
So instead of balancing, or just accepting that disparity is sometimes inevitable (and in my opinion acceptable as long as it’s minimal because it’s practically impossible for there not to be slight disparity), they just…straight deleted it. Which frankly has been the developer’s MO for quite a few expansions now, so it shouldn’t even surprise me at this point lol