Do AST really need this Buff?

[Elamys]

Your way of thinking about this is stupid. A hybrid job should never be as good as WHM/SCH. They have their Card System. That should be well enough to make them unique and being played about.

AST is not a hybrid in the traditional sense because the support role as a whole does not actually exist in this game, only tank/dps/healer. Would you be okay with saying BRD and MCH should do terrible damage because they have support skills? For a while that was the case and it got changed to where those classes were actually able to do competitive DPS because it was a hindrance to parties. AST got buffed to the point it currently is at so that SE felt it could compete, as a healer, against the other healers, for a healing spot, because it is a healer. The buff we got for SB IS too much, but this "hybrid roles shouldn't be -blank-" thinking is way outdated in MMOs. This game is not built as tank/dps/healer/support.

I agree we shouldn't be better than WHM, but AST still needs to be able to heal the damage, and SE felt that at first AST couldn't do that on an equal level.