Quote Originally Posted by TheDustyOne View Post
The split has always rubbed me the wrong way and felt like an excuse to not give WHM some shields or mitigation and to rip Noct from AST. I'd rather have it so every healer is capable of regens, shields, and raw heals, but in varying capacities. Sure, make WHM the obvious choice for making the HP bar go up fast, but don't have it unable to protect a party from heavy hits. Let SCH be king of shields, but don't make it incapable of dealing with heal-from-1 mechanics.

Yes I know SCH is also practically king of raw heals at the moment, that's another problem that Square has made.
I feel the same way. Lv78 traits on Soil back in ShB, anybody? I had that moment: “Why is this trait exists on a BARRIER Healer??”

As for Noct AST, they could’ve just leave that section entirely intact and it won’t even be an issue today. It’s just an excuse and smokescreen attempt to fool the uninformed that there is an actual dichotomy.