6 Years without a healer?

[Crushnight]

Diurnal and nocturnal need to be reworked take away the regens and shields and replace with something like
Diurnal - AB/AH - Increase potency of card buffs on target cannot stack cannot be refreshed keep same healing potency
Nocturnal - AB/AH - Increases duration of card buffs on target cannot stack cannot be refreshed keep same healing potency
or something else ast can heal fine without needing AB/AH shields or regens ast identity is its cards so i feel the sects should reflect this and not be the current whm sect/sch sect

[Lambdafish]

Diurnal and nocturnal need to be reworked take away the regens and shields and replace with something like
Diurnal - AB/AH - Increase potency of card buffs on target cannot stack cannot be refreshed keep same healing potency
Nocturnal - AB/AH - Increases duration of card buffs on target cannot stack cannot be refreshed keep same healing potency
or something else ast can heal fine without needing AB/AH shields or regens ast identity is its cards so i feel the sects should reflect this and not be the current whm sect/sch sect

Yeah this is what I meant, I would love these changes. Healing with cards sounds really interesting.

[Misutoraru]

That’s the exact issue I have,
I always have a main in each role, AST being my main healer since HW, after level it to 70 and gearing it I start leveling SCH and WHM. I lose my initiative to level up both, they just feel the same as AST without the rng card system. The core are the same.
I was expecting a new heal role in new expansion and I always feel dancer feel to buff/debug role more than heal
I don’t want another carbon copy of existing healer with identity issue. It is not heal exclusive, back in HW release, MCH feel very similar to BRD too.

[Reiryuu]

Anyone wanna take bets that all 4 tank jobs get mounts as well this expansion? SE never seems to have problems with spending resources on tanks... =/

Yeah this is what I meant, I would love these changes. Healing with cards sounds really interesting.

Hmm... I'd think it'd make a lot more sense to make the AST a HoT healer, personally. Change Benefic and Benefic II to HoTs that heal the same amount they do now but over 6 ticks (initial cast hit tick +5) give them a much shorter cast time and a slightly reduced MP cost. Then...

Diurnal Sect- Either 1) Aspected Benefic now halves the duration of the next duration, healing the same amount in 15 secs. or 2) All HoTs now heal for their full amount in half the time.

Noctournal Sect - Same 1) and 2) but with a different effect Next/All Hots become a 1 (or more?) minute duration buff that creates three healing satillites to orbit the player. When damaged (or when the target reaches a certain % of HP or lower) an orb bursts and heals for ~2/3 of what the heal would be if the spell were a direct heal like they are now.

I'm not good with numbers balance wise, so consider those just examples. This is to balance HPS (healing per second) so the longer duration buff would heal more per burst because those heals are taking longer to take effect. (double the healing, but over more time.)