(This is my first time posting to a forum so bare with me)

As an AST main since Heavensward early access I can firmly say that I am severely disappointed how healers got treated in this expansion. AST and SCH pretty much got stripped of everything that made them unique as healers. With AST cards now only giving damage buffs (for 15 seconds mind you and only single target) and almost all of SCH's DPS abilities it's like they are WHM's but with a fairy or tarot cards. This "simplifying of healers for casual players" was not needed and as a "casual" player myself I hate that they did this. If people wanted a real easy way of healing they could have easily turned to WHM.

Focusing on AST divination seems almost pointless. A 6% boost on all your party members if you get the all the seals in a reasonable time is not worth it when it last for 15 seconds and has a 3 minute cooldown. And depending on how your RNG is you might not even get the seals you want in time for when you want to use it. The main cards doing only 6\3% damage buffs is also in my eyes dumb. The old card system gave you the chance to give out different types of buffs and to spread it out to people in a reasonable time. I think the only thing I like about AST that they changed was the Lord and Lady Cards as having a 8\4% boost in damage is quite nice. I would touch upon SCH as well but since I never bothered to level the class to even level 50 so i'm not a good person to talk about it.

The only positive that has come out of this for healers is that now that everyone is jumping ship que times are instant. And honestly if they keep the healers like this they should just get rid of AST and SCH as they are now just WHM reskins. I hope Square sees the backlash that this is getting and fix AST and SCH because this is terrible.