Synastry is a bit op.

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Oh are we playing this game?

Then lets factor in the significantly more potent direct heals that Astrologian gets for raw healing that scholar's fairy + the scholar can barely scratch. Then WHM absolutely craps bricks on the Scholar's actual healing healing.

Cure 2 = 650 potency and aldoquium with emergency tactics (30s cd) heals for 600 and costs a cluster of mana. Benefic 2 that is spammable is 620 potency.

Furthermore AST has a ton of HoT power that can easily make up for the lack of fairy.

Err no. Benefic 2 is NOT spam-able. You'll constantly running into mana problem on longer fights (been there, done that). Benefic 2 is supposed to be emergency catch-up heal. The same thing goes with HoT skills. I found myself relying a lot on MP potions, even though I always use Spear card on myself before casting MP regen, using only Benefic I & rarely doing any DPS on boss fights.