The positive Astrologian thread!

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And this is what you misunderstand. No one is asking for AST to perform exactly the same function in the previous meta that WHM/SCH would have. They're asking for them to be able to match/compete with their own meta. Currently, AST doesn't compete in the previous meta or create their own, new meta which can compete with the previous one. This is what leads to AST not being taken in progression groups.

Yeah, I'd like to see a situation where WHM/AST is useful, letting the WHM do the bulk of the direct healing while the AST boosts the group DPS significantly and provides damage mitigation (disable/shields) and/or emergency heals.

The problem is that even with something like that, the SCH would still end up doing it better right now.