Quote Originally Posted by Vlady View Post
Yes some people want to change how a job works and remake it into something else. Some people want it to have potency boost and white mage level healing cooldowns. You bring the white mage for the pure burst healing and the scholar for its utility and mitigation. You bring the astrologian for its damage improving buffs and its versatility. You seem to have an issue with the astrologian filling that niche which it does and yes it will receive more fixes but please do not get your hopes up because the healing and buffs are what is fine about the job. It is the range of cards to an extent and the fact we lost our ability to be versatile in combat

And you can expect people to take you seriously when you think its a bad idea that white mage can outheal astrologians in oh shit situation? Sorry but that does not fly when you go from drama on the forums to actually playing the game.
AST is not versatile. It is locked into a stance from the start of the encounter to the end. It lacks the insta cast abilities that allow the other two healer jobs the room to manoeuvre and be versatile in the encounter.

The defence of AST being it shouldnt be able to heal to SCH or WHM level due to cards is fallacious beyond belief. Both this jobs can heal the encounter far better than the AST can and bring more with them. The AST has lackluster buffs that rely in attempting to tame RNG to get anything out of them. If, as you argue, it is a support healer, then it has to be able to replace the need to take a MCH or BRD into a raid. Can it do this? Nope, not at all. If we persue this support argument you make, the choice for a raid team should be which one of the AST, MCH and BRD is taken for support. Take an AST then you take 4 nonsupport DPS. Its weaker at healing than WHM and SCH, and it support functionality is far far far far weaker than BRD and MCH. Both things its supposed to do it cant.