Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
the reality is, ast became doomed when they decided they want to lower class synergy. The buff is garbage because they want there to be no advantage to selecting an ast over another healer. This means the buff is tuned so that a really great coordinated team, making use of the buffs might catch up to the difference between ast dps and another healers dps. This means, for most situations, the buff ends up really low.
As of right now, it doesn’t look as if AST will make up for WHM’s personal damage with its cards. WHM right now can pull upwards of 7,000 DPS, while AST sits at a little above 4,000. Even in Alphascape, AOE Balance was only ~1,000 rDPS if you had really good RNG. I don’t see these single-target cards or Divination making up the difference of ~2,500+ rDPS to make the job competitive. With regards to healing, level 80 SCH is busted to the point where they can solo heal while the WHM turrets DPS—which was the only advantage Noct AST had (it was really good at solo healing).