Done with AST

[MidnightTundra]

Let them go back to scholar. Some people just expect a job to be over powered because it's new. Astro is fine and heals as well as rubber other heales.

Either you don't have a 60 SCH or you're fine being the "balanced" guy compared to an "overpowered" guy. I'm an i187 AST and I pretty much pour everything into this class. Why? Because it's really, really fun. Fun > all for me at this point. As an AST and a SCH, I don't ignore what my SCH is capable of and what my AST is capable of.

There's only so much you can do with AST compared to SCH. I don't have an instant AoE heal. I don't have oGCD damage nukes. I don't have a pet healing every GCD. I don't have the AoE or single target damage potential as a SCH. I can't mitigate damage anywhere near what a SCH can.

As an AST, I have mobile healing and random buffs. I'm the only healer who can grant TP/MP. I'm the only healer who can reduce oGCDs. I can't think of anything else to be honest.

I feel like we're sacrificing too much just because we have these random buffs. I like playing cards in battle when I'm healing and DPSing. I like the RNG and the player-based management of the cards. I do not like that I'm being held back because the developers gave me cards. I do not like that I work twice as hard as my SCH (which is fun for me) and I look at my parser and see my AST either behind in HPS or DPS.

AST is not ideal in Raid (People like strong mitigation and DPSing healers), Dungeons (Pet and Bane. Period.) or Trials (Pet allows a lot of room to DPS).

I've made AST work because healing has been really easy so far. I've made it work because it's fun as hell. People aren't arguing the fact that AST isn't fine. They're arguing the fact that the other healers are better because you're in direct competition for a slot with them.