Quote Originally Posted by Jijifli View Post
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I actually do agree with most of what you've said, but I do question what that costs to the other healers.

AST can perform both roles, and as a hybrid is outclassing both who should be specialising in those roles. Do we then think it's fair for them to stay like that, along with their card buffs, just for the sake of their sects remaining relevant?

SCH is not going to be reverted to it's previous 3.x self. They removed too many abilities, and changed the entire playstyle of the job. One could argue that N.Sect was trash because SCH itself was perfect back then, but that won't be the case. (Unless they decide to give all our DoTs back, our mitigation in Virus and give the Faerie a significant buff.) With that being said, a shield being slightly weaker, but instant cast, is still powerful and doesn't then outclass the job that is meant to be known for shielding. And once again, they still bring card buffs, so it would not be anywhere near as bad as N.AST was pre 3.4.

AST is a mess to balance, they really should have removed one sect and added an opposite healer to balance, but they did not. So we either have this problem where AST can be stronger in every aspect, or we can let them shine with their buffs, tone down some of thier healing kit and give WHM/SCH their power back. Personally I'd rather see all three healers at the same level. Rght now we can all agree that WHM/SCH would be a viable but extremely suboptimal comp.