Potential AST Rework: Cards = Heals

[YusiKha]

The only nerf Balance really needed was a change in effect. Changing it to a True North effect would have still kept the card useful (for melee at least), and would have dropped AST from being mandatory in all parties. The only thing that kept it mandatory was the damage buff on Balance. Removing that buff would have balanced AST out quite a bit.

Everyone saying 'Balance is the issue' is completely forgetting that Royal Road was the true problem.
With Expanded Royal Road being the best effect (~3x pot, vs 2x extended & 1.5x enhanced) meaning that the job-based strength of Arrow (on SAM/MNK/BLM) or Spear (on MNK/BRD) was completely overlooked for the omnibeneficial Balance.