Quote Originally Posted by Katlyna View Post
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It really seems like the Card buffs were needed when Astrologian didn't really meet par in regards to healing potencies, since AST was originally designed to be a Sub-WHM, Sub-SCH, but also had great buffing capablity. But with all the healing buffs and with more skills centered solely around raw healing power, the cards are kind of becoming a bonus.

It's basically turned into "You get a SCH and Buffs!" or "You get a WHM and Buffs!", if you add in how the RNG system isn't punishing at all, they really had to decide between nerfing potencies or nerfing cards, I guess they went with cards.