You can add my name to this list of participants, the whole reason I came back to this game was due to AST and not only is it losing dmg tools it NEEDS, they are doing nothing for healers to make them meaningful in content. I also tank BUT a simple removing self heals isn't what needs to be done. They need to be tweaked and barring warrior the other 3 aren't even making this as problematic as it could be. I look at Bloodwhetting and can understand why people want it removed and I frankly have to agree with them, it's literally a better Rampart COMBINED with Abyssal Drain. You can use it every single trash pull, I play Dark Knight as my tank and I feel genuinely insulted knowing that. You cannot spam as often, and it's a ONE time deal, Bloodwhetting is a stance so you heal a LOT more but also more often thanks to getting 3-4 gcds in that window.

I am VERY upset at the horrible treatment AST is receiving but when you see how little our voices are being heard for the general concept of what a healer is and should do that's the tipping point. I have been healing/hybrid healing for nearly 22 years and SE knows better, this is not okay. They listen to us on the FFXI forums and say they listen to us here and I frankly have zero reason to believe that given how long this has been going on for. On top of the AST problems which are being made worse than they already were with nothing helping them dmg wise and instead going completely backwards with it. But I will not vent my problems with the AST changes directly in here, let alone others already share the sentiment and have spoken already.