Thread: 3.07 Patch notes are up.

Originally Posted by AlphaSonic

AST shield potency is better than Adlo if it doesn't crit
AST nocturnal helios is better than Succor.

While true, noct sect is still terrible. Ast has the tools to be a ghetto whm. It does not have the tools to be a ghetto scholar.

Okay so when SCH's Galvanize and AST's Nocturnal get fix? I kinda hate this pair because each mitigate skill overwrite each other even one gets critical

I want to say this doesn't matter, and right now it doesn't. But it will when the next 24 man raid comes around. 8 man you just tell the ast to stop being bad and go diurnal. The shields shouldn't stack of course, but the stronger one should persist.

Hmm. Blood weapon buff is nice, I won't bottom of anymore at least when I stance dance.

Wish they improved our skills post 50. Though. 3 of them are lackluster.

Originally Posted by valho

lol no, previously in your party list, your own TP number is shown under the bar, this is the number remove, not the one from the big yellow TP bar that only you can see

Oh thank goodness.

I'm surprised that they buffed the AST potencies to pretty much match WHM/SCH potencies...

I wish SE would stop persisting with the silly RNG on card draws, though. 30 second Balance is nice, but with a 17% Draw rate it's still kinda ehhhhh. Note that I'm not advocating for complete freedom on Draw, but not even buffing Shuffle to eliminate your chance if drawing the same card you shuffled is kind of annoying.

I actually think it'll be a nice raid QoL for Bole, though. It's basically a 30-second Virus on a mob, which will stack with a tank's other mitigation. Spear not receiving the duration buff is frankly bizarre to me. Considering it's niche use, would buffing the duration really have been seen as OP?

Noct Sect changes are good but still kinda disappounting. SCH's shields integrate so much better with their toolkit; it's pretty obvious more thought went into designing AST around Diurnal. Celestial Opposition is still very flashy, pretty crap. Unconscious buff is good but would rather they changed it to a ground target lol. Still, it'll be a nice prep for raid busters assuming you can get in position in time.

Synastry buff is sexy. No complaints there.

I think these were good fixes to AST's throughput issues, though on a personal level I'm sad the cards are just fun flavor without any meaningful impact. I wish the buffing system had been implemented better, and thought that this patch might be SE's chance to fix it, but they seemed more concerned about bringing healing in line (note that I'm not saying this is a BAD thing, just that my preference would have been more powerful buffs that offset their lower healing).

This has been discussed to death in the healer subforums already, though. Time to log in and test for myself in-game!

Originally Posted by AlphaSonic

AST shield potency is better than Adlo if it doesn't crit
AST nocturnal helios is better than Succor.

Seriously SE?

I can see it now getting paired up with a nocturnal AST on my SCH through the DF and asking them politely to swap to Diurnal so we don't overlap only to receive the response "Why should I? My shields are stronger"

I know that people will say that in the DF it doesn't matter but it does negatively impact my ability to do my job and is really annoying when an AST uses Aspected Helios immediately after Ive gotten a crit Adlo on the MT

Please think these things through better SE, if anything the heal shields should be equal to each other

For Cards, I kind of wish they had a fixed random order.

For example. We have six cards in our deck, when I switch to Astrologian lets say those are ordered randomly, as; Bole, Spear, Spire, Balance, Arrow, Ewer. When I draw Bole first, and use it, it's now gone and wont be drawn again until I either go through all six, at which point the deck it automatically reset, or I hit Shuffle. This would allow Astrologians to actually have a go at predicting the future, rather than it being purely RNG. Lets say I put Bole on the tank, nobody really benefits from Spear, so I Royal Road it, then I draw Spire. Again, nobody really benefits from that right now, so what do I do? Well, I know that I only have Balance, Arrow and Ewer left to draw, I could either let Spire wear off, or Royal Road it (wasting Spear) and give everyone one of those three. Or I could Shuffle, if I do that however, the deck resets and a new random order is created. I might get Spire again, but then I know Spire is out of the picture for a bit.

I think that would be more interesting, and thematically appropriate for Astrologian, than; Draw > Spire > Draw > Spire > Draw > Spire "OH COME THE F*CK ON".

Originally Posted by AsahinaMyLove

Edit: Why Dark Knight got TP adjustment...? Like it was a problem for a jobclass that mainly needs MP!! <,<;

TP issues when OTing were massive though. You never really notice in 4 mans because the fights are so short, but in Alexander Arm 1 I'd run out of TP before the first jump if OTing because of how much blood weapon drained. Heck, I almost run out even as MT, but this goes a long way in making it possible to OT sometimes.