All These Astro suggestions!

[TatoRazzino]

Hmm now u got me worried for future planning if they add a 4th healer.... If ast is middle ground between whm and sch.... What would happen if a 4th healer comes? Would ast become none existant?.... Would there be a new trinity sync between the new healer with whm and sch which forces ast to be the sideline healer?

Now im concerned for the future of ast because of its hybrid role.... Especially if they make a 4 healer

Im thinking way ahead of time would this hybrid role ast got cause issues in future if they add brand new healers to the game

You don't have to worry about that, Yhisa, because there are plenty of things they can do to take AST of the hybrid weak healer position. There are several healing/buffing mechanics that FF XIV doesn't have and that exist in FF XI and WoW, and that could be implemented in this game. For example, WHM in FF XI has two stances Afflatus Solace and Afflatus Misery, which work like this: Afflatus Solace records the amount of HP the WHM restores by their Cure spells and Afflatus Misery recorded damage you took; this value was used to buff other WHM spells, increaing their potency and adding utility to them. One of the effects they could give was granting Stoneskin to the Cure spells (Stoneskin then would work for WHM in FF XI like Galvanize/Nocturnal Field work in FF XIV, by the way), but they buffed other spells as well. AST could get a mechanic like that, or they could get buffs that would blast into heals when conditions were met, such as Druid's Living Seed in WoW. FF XIV used WoW strategies before in the AST toolkit (Synastry), so there's no reason why they couldn't do it now.

[EDIT: MidnightTundra pointed out a mistake about Stoneskin in FF XI, so I corrected it here]