Regarding AST

[Kabzy]

I agree we need a 4th healer that sits as a counter to AST's buff system, but please don't forget that we had N.AST putting out better mitigation per mana than SCH was just a few patches ago. We're finally at the best sweet spot of the three in a while.

I agree, it seems more sensible to not make changes and keep the balance as it is now. However on the note about SCH, we received an entire move back (Miasma II) which increased our DPS a fair amount, and our raid DPS contribution is generally better than ASTs after the Balance nerf as well. IMO the shielding aspect is much less of a contributing factor to the balance between the two.