Breaking a Dichotomy - Give Everyone Shields

[YusiKha]

I would just like to add in the fact that AST's identity isn't broken down to being in Diurnal and Noct but actually as a buffer class with the cards (Old Cards at least) along side being able to increase buff durations with Time Dilation and Celestial Opposition but now that those are gone and CO being a Heal now AST's identity is complete stripped. Job Lore states that AST is the emissary of Space, Time and Fate and Time Dilation, Old CO and Old Arcanum Cards (All 6 of them with their old effects) supports this claim.

AST doesn’t have a solid healing identity in itself yet, ...

A healing identity, not overall identity. Y'know - like SCH's fairy and aetherflow for oGCD/concurrent healing, or WHM's Afflatus GCDs and the raw potency on skills like Tetra and Asylum.

[Kuwago]

A healing identity, not overall identity. Y'know - like SCH's fairy and aetherflow for oGCD/concurrent healing, or WHM's Afflatus GCDs and the raw potency on skills like Tetra and Asylum.

At this Iteration, it seems like Aspected Benefic and Helios alongside CO and CI is the "healing identity" with this expansion, but I want to say (Based on how the job flow is to me) it seems to be going towards 'predictive' healing with Earthly Star and Horoscope where you need to know the fight and plan ahead of time and plan it at the right time so that the heals coincide right after the party takes damage.