The 2 stacks on draw is just another example of square making a change with healers that they really don’t think all the way through and it just leads to unintended consequences that mess the job up in other places

AST has always been a victim of it but the job is just a hot mess in EW, it holds on entirely by virtue of the 2 minute meta powering up SCH and AST over WHM and SGE (which happens every expansion) but does anyone look at the current state of AST (not even accounting for its slide from glory) and think the decisions made on it were right or honestly made the job better

AST has just become a microcosm of everything wrong with healers (though to be fair they are all so bad I could make a preachy speech about how all of them are a microcosm of poor healer design)

-AST- making changes without considering the entire kit leads to problems outside of the direct influence of the change
-SCH- deleting damage skills from a DPS healer without altering the underlying healing kit leads to disjointed and messy healing skills
-WHM- GCD healing doesn’t work in this game
-SGE- making a healer with no Jank fit to the current style of healing has done little more than show how boring healing is

AST is probably just the egregious because a lot of its worst changes came about in EW (besides the great healer lobotomisation) while SCH and WHM improved slightly from ShB