Astral Flow

[Elphy]

So now that Perfect Defense is nerfed a bit (which was for the most part the main use of astral flow) what about adjustments to astral flow to make it more useful?

PD being the only thing astral flow is useful for?

really?

AF has a myriad of uses, its just situational. If you are not using AF for anything other than PD you are missing out and not playing smn anywhere near its full potential.

Talk to some other career smns who can give you the scoop on AF before making suggestions on how to change it

[Annalise]

PD being the only thing astral flow is useful for?

really?

AF has a myriad of uses, its just situational. If you are not using AF for anything other than PD you are missing out and not playing smn anywhere near its full potential.

Talk to some other career smns who can give you the scoop on AF before making suggestions on how to change it

Funny how I didn't exactly say that it was the only use. It's the main use. Nor did I say that Astral flow was useless outside of Perfect Defense. Reading comprehension.

Yes, it is situational and it can be useful in other situations. Using it for perfect defense is in fact situational. My celestial avatar astral flow (especially Shiva, of course) can one shot a horde of normal mobs in abyssea. This can be useful. It can also be useful when used against multiple monsters (I have used Fenrir's in dynamis before, joys of double dark weather), when one wants free perpetuation/more mp refresh, or killing something in a pinch with odin. People have also used Odin at the start of fights to take off a chunk of HP, though I typically did not do that.

I am a career summoner, so trust me I know about its uses. And my suggestions weren't really much about changing it, but rather boosting it. As Luvbunny has suggested, it should be scaled up to 99. I have read elsewhere that it stops scaling after level 50 due to previous level caps, and not being rebalanced/scaled after the level cap was raised.

Regardless of having its situational uses, I think it could still use a bit of rebalancing at the 99 cap. Especially since Perfect Defense, the main strategic reason of astral flow at 99 (regardless of its other situational uses) was nerfed a bit. I can understand why Embrava/Perfect defense were nerfed a bit, and I am fine with that.
However, considering the main purpose of Diamond Dust/Earth Fury/etc. is to deal damage, the damage is less than that of a merit bloodpact, and it is the 1-hour ability, I think it could use a little balancing. The only thing those pacts have going for them is that they are multiple target, or give access to an element which the summoner does not have merited.