A summary of healer issues

[ASkellington]

Ah, see my thinking is that AST could move over to being more a 'delayed effects healer' in the vein of Star, Horoscope, Exaltation, rather than regens. Regen is a staple of White Magic from previous games, and it makes sense for there to be an AOE version, hence I'd keep Medica2 for that reason. Medica2 already is equal strength to Medica1 after just one tick though, hence why I want 'em combined. I'd rather we see HOTs as a focus on a 5th healer, with proper kit dedicated to it, rather than keeping it on AST, especially since they removed the time manipulation stuff from AST and refuse to give it back. Instead, I'd make AST all about 'predicting the future', with it's cards, its delayed heals and new 'delayed damage skills', it's a fortune telling class after all. Make a new healer class dedicated to HOTs and DOTs, and manipulation of them. Extend them, Quicken them to instant detonate in raidbuffs, Rewind them to refresh duration, this is sounding almost like... a mage that works with Time Magics. A Mage of Time if you will

AST is Time Mage is the issue though.

Delayed healing and regens to me = that. Macrocosmos especially since it seems to Rewind health. (the effect even looks like a clock) And they're called Heals over Time. Quite frankly you could remove the cards from AST and it would be Time Mage the Healer.

Also, I can't say it would sit well with many people who played AST who HAD Time Dilation for it to be removed and then given to a mage who technically could fill AST's role. Espeically since people want a Time mage with delayed damage. Uh... you could literally drop that into AST with 0 problems since Earthly Star exists...

AST unfortunately is bloated with concepts from fortunetelling to time magic.

As it stands right now, without Noct Sect, you'll hear me double down on AST being regen/delayed healer based. It literally fits all of its heals outside of its base lv50 kit: CO - regen. CU - regen + mit. Horoscope - delayed heal. Macro - delayed heal. Exalt - delayed heal. Earthly Star - delayed heal.

AST is a manipulator of fate and arguably time. May as well keep it.

If we wanted to make room for a 5th healer (which considering SGE I don't think SE could even DO), make AST stance dancer between Di/Noct and have the final healer be a HoT based one I guess.