Honestly? No they don't deserve powerful new abilities AND potency buffs across the board AND better shields AND the lowest mana cost of all three healers. Astro as it is right now in HW is stronger in a raid composition than Scholar or Whitemage are with their SB abilities (at least on paper) while being able to also adequately fill both of their niches. Scholar got hit with the nerfbat in several departments and none of whitemages new skills besides thin air actually do anything at all. If they wanted to give Astro a bunch of new toys that substantially increase the consistency of their kit and add raw numbers they should not have also given across-the-board potency and shield buffs to it too. Letting them turn dead cards into free damage (because a healing off global means your next global can be spent on damage) when they already contribute the most raid damage and the best shields and healing compareable to the (useless) pure healing class is blatantly unfair.
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