Overreaction to Astrologian buff.

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IF you're playing Astro like Sch or Whm then that's where the complaints about bad astros come from.

Nothing in this applies to what I said.

SCH is fine. WHM is fine. Just because AST's toys got better doesn't mean SCH/WHMs got worse.Be happy we now have three viable and competitive healing classes to play rather than just two. I'm excited to take AST further now that they've gotten adjustments and even more excited when I'm paired with one in DF.

That's actually exactly what it means. When you take an ability, copy it, give it lower mp cost and better potency it makes the original worse.

For the billionth time I'm happy astro got buffed and that they are viable. The issue isn't that there are three healers. It's that there are 2.5

Indeed, AST was designed as a hybrid healer, we know that already. It's not going to change, at least not until 4.0, so we can stop whining about that.
But again, it's funny that SCH/WHM in the forum didn't fell an urge to complain about homogeneity when AST was just the weaker version of what it is now and now that suddenly it's almost on par on the healing side (and still much weaker dps-wise) they get so defensive.

This just isn't true. I could go back and find posts before HW where I said the exact same thing - hybrid healer is a bad/lazy idea. Actually a ton of people had the same exact complaints then as now, its just when it came out and it was severely undertuned people ignored it. All we did was hit pause on an argument that started 3 months ago.