That's a real shame, I hadn't really read any of that.

I was thinking the other day what changes to AST could be made to restore WHM their identity without pushing AST out. I thought that instead of making AST a "main-heal" kinda class, they should have left them as a regen/shielding hybrid throughout the fight. Leaving the cards as they are and limiting some of their more powerful healing hit (Benefic II and Aspected Helios) to CDs, while allowing them to change Sects in battle (with a 30 sec CD on the sect, maybe) could have worked for a more interesting class that doesn't get in WHM's shoes too much, and also makes it so you don't have to balance two healing classes in one, since DiAST and NoctAST wouldn't have to be seen as different roles.

It's probably not perfect, but I think these changes would be healthy for the meta:

- Getting rid of Benefic II and replacing it with a 45 sec-1 min. CD that would increase the healing potency of the next spell cast by 50%. This would make a Benefic the same potency as Benefic II, and would increase Aspected Benefic's potency a lot to serve as cushion.

- Changing Aspected Helios to be an instant ability, not a spell, on a 1 min. CD, affected by Sects respectively. To make up for Synastry not affecting Noct!Helios, the shielding potency could be brought up to 290 or 300 to be a surrogate Deployment Tactics (as it is right now).

- Allowing sects to be used in the middle of battle with a 30 sec CD, thus allowing for hybrid healing styles.

- Getting rid of Stella and giving Malefic the Heavy effect (since all healers have a form of this).

- Replacing Stella's skill slot with a 3 min CD ability that would make all Aspected effects be transformed into healing on all targets within 15ym of the AST. Basically something similar to Emergency Tactics, except that you'd use it after casting, thus transforming all remaining HoTs into burst healing, and all shields into burst healing as well. With this, the healing potency of Helios might have to be changed, but being on a 3 min CD I don't think it's awfully necessary.

- Additionally, combined total potency on AST's HoTs would probably have to revised, and possibly reduced, as well as the duration on Aspected Helios' regen.

- Cards are left as they are right now, with Balance, Arrow and Bole being dumb af.

I'm not sure these changes would actually bring WHM up from the grave, but at least I think making AST's burst healing more gated, like Scholar's is, would make seem WHM more desireable.