Do AST really need this Buff?

[MsTanya]

Its not so much nerf ast its just stop overbuffing it, leave it where it is now which many will say is still the most powerful of the three healers and bring the other two up to its level. At the rate they're going with every patch raining buffs from the heavens on ast we will be in a duo ast meta sooner rather than later. If the media tour values and jp tooltips are to be implemented as is then that may already be the case honestly.

[Kabzy]

Its not so much nerf ast its just stop overbuffing it, leave it where it is now which many will say is still the most powerful of the three healers and bring the other two up to its level. At the rate they're going with every patch raining buffs from the heavens on ast we will be in a duo ast meta sooner rather than later. If the media tour values and jp tooltips are to be implemented as is then that may already be the case honestly.

If LB penalties aren't too harsh I wouldn't be surprised seeing dual AST as a viable comp.

I do agree that nerfing isn't nice, but they've already dumbed down healers a lot with all these changes. If SCH and WHM were brought up to ASTs levels, this healer role would be faceroll easy. Considering the potencies we've seen on AST so far, I would really hope they will be nerfed before launch. There isn't a whole lot of balancing they can do in a few weeks, but that kind of needs to happen. As for what happens with WHM after, we can only hope it won't be a repeat of 3.0 AST.