Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
There's a difference between "I'm not sure if this specific solution would solve the problem in a way that wouldn't have unwanted side-effects on other content" and "I don't think this problem should be solved at all".
Well, people specifically saying that AST shouldn't do that much more damage.

Outside of a buff to potency, the only other option is...just more base potency. But that would add to its already high party-DPS contribution via buffs, making it OP then. So any solution has to walk that balance. It's why I was thinking something like one of these to options would work, since they preclude the AST from buffing other people at the same time (well, Divination, but the buff being less for AST than the gap to WHM should make that shake out relatively evenly in the end...)

They could then increase the damage of the other healers as well, to maintain the gaps AND make AST able to do the content...but then you run into the problem of every piece of content in the game needing rebalancing and healers doing even more damage requiring Enrages to be further adjusted up in the future and on and on and on.