Well said by Sylve.

While I am all for pushing AST up to be on par with WHM in overall contribution or at least very close, I am NOT for bringing back the old card effects in any way.

The reason I'm against AST being the toolbelt healer is that it hogged too many buffs on a single job to the point that other players said "X job cant exist because AST is already that" - great example would be Time Mage being impossible because Arrow (Haste), Time Dilation, Gravity and CO (basically Stop) are all on Astro, thus Astro is Time Mage.