How could you do this to AST?

[QooEr]

I remember how CO was at launch of 5.0. I nearly took that crap off my hotbar. tI was nearly useless...not completely...but pretty close.

i dont really understand your point? old co was better at healing than 5.0 co; you could extend collective unconscious or aspected benefic with it, which would definitely give more healing than the measly 400 potency 5.0 CO gave.

Then they went way overboard and made CO give ridiculous amounts of healing on a ridiculously short cooldown.

quoting myself:
SB ast had about 1455 ogcd aoe heal potency per minute*; at 5.0 launch ast had 1320 aoe heal potency per min. Now its 2120 free aoe healing potency per min. Its beyond insane how much free healing AST has.

* 1455 if you always had asp helios up when you used copp. If you never casted gcd heals, ast had 1395 potency/min. if you always extended aspected benefic on a tank with copp it had 1605 p/min on single target.