Quote Originally Posted by kikix12 View Post
Astrologian is hardly any more of a support healer than White Mage or Scholar. It have a whooping one skill that generates a random buff and one skill that changes that buffs effect. That's literally all. Everything else is related to healing or damage mitigation that is part of every healer since their respective day 1. So yes, Astrologian is a healer with support abilities, but so are technically White Mage (Fluid Aura and Repose) and Scholar (Chain Stratagem, Fey Covenant of Eos, Silent Dusk and Fey Wind of Selene).
Thing about AST is that their support elements are substantially more consistent when compared to lengthier cooldowns such as those from SCH and more valuable than the crowd controlling abilities from WHM that haven't seen much use in major content. Sure, it's just a couple of buttons, but in the right hands, those buttons can prove to be close to gamebreaking.

Two things to point out. The first is the ongoing reference to "stamina", and unless that is referring to TP, that might need its own gauge as well and means of restoring it (unless there's something there I missed).

The second thing is kinda big not just for FFXIV healers, but for healers in any MMORPG that uses a role trinity. Although it might look like a reskin, every healer typically has a rudimentary toolkit to adequately function in all content. The basic heal, the big heal, the instant heal, the AoE heal, the big AoE heal and some sort of panic button when things are really going south....all of these need to be present in some form or another to operate as a basic healer, and after that usually comes the unique healing gimmick and then the damage toys and the flavor stuff. The reason why it looks like reskinning for healers in FFXIV is because it makes them easier to balance....at least in theory anyway. It's not really a "set in stone" thing, but it's still something worth bearing in mind whenever making a healer concept.

Always interesting seeing any concept for Dancer given Yoshi's response of wanting to get it "just right" given that was his response to why we didn't get Dancer for Stormblood. Like you said, it could definitely use some tuning, especially with traits. Maybe some lore elements wouldn't hurt either. Despite that and some of the text being a bit hard to follow at times, it's definitely a more interesting approach to Dancer, at least as a healer.