Do AST really need this Buff?

[RichardButte]

Ast is fundamentally flawed, and will break the healer balance forever until they make it a different type of healer instead of a copy of a white mage that can also use the scholar shielding tools. There's just no way for it to ever be balanced when it does the same things the other healers do and has cards.

Maybe in the expansion where we go into space and they decide to make a new tank and healer to get DPS balance right things will get fixed. But healers are gonna be in a weird place forever until things change on a fundamental level.

Hypothetically, if they can make the value of the cards beneficial enough that they're worth bringing a healer with a lower overall healing potency, it could work.

But seeing as how there's so much RNG involved, they'd either need to buff the crap out of the cards or rework them entirely.

With RNG, it would be a razor thin line between "OP" and "not worth using, ever".