ASTROLOGIST - DPS roles for the 7.0 ?

AST mains want:

Varied cards. Period.
Better RNG mitigation
Time elements like Time Dilation back
Nocturnal Sect

None of those need nor require AST to be DPS job. They require SE to actually be C R E A T I V E in how they implement them. See PvP AST for details (and PvP versions of classes in general honestly).

If AST becomes ANYTHING it would be a straight up removal of cards and a rebranding to be Time Mage the healer.

And again, AST could be a regen healer if SE would actually play with the idea.

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Originally Posted by Aravell

But why does AST have to become a DPS job to be designed properly when they could just.....design the healer role properly in the first place?

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I mean, yes, that would be the ideal scenario, wouldn't it? Let's hope we see that happen before the game ends in 10 or so years.

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Originally Posted by MintnHoney

I can't be mad at the suggestion. If only for the sake of not being hampered by needing to fit in the do-nothing healer role with an over-abundance of healing skills and undercooked impact of 2-4% buffs, perhaps AST would have been allowed to have more of a buffing-regimen if they were a DPS, and therefore the class fantasy would have been better off.

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Yeah I'm honestly all for it. A DPS job that makes its contribution obliquely, through casting support skills on the correct targets? Throwing thorns on tanks, auto-attack enhancers on auto-attackers, damaging auras on melees, stuff like that? And better still, the buffs are to big enough to detect in the game itself without having to load up an illegal third-party spreadsheet manager, because they have to be, because they're its DPS contribution?

It'll never happen, of course, but it would be cool and imaginative and feel like an actual RPG caster.

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But honestly, rather than just this, I would prefer to have it so that all jobs had the ability to function in as any role by switching out certain spells, skills, and abilities based on the role the player chooses. That way everyone could just be their favorite job(s) whenever.

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Guild Wars 1.

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Originally Posted by vetch

A DPS job that makes its contribution obliquely, through casting support skills on the correct targets?

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In another world where NIN did not get Trick/Mug changes (and so it's raidwide utility buff is still a 1min) I'd have said that BLU would be a good fit for the role, as the 'caster equivalent of NIN'. It's got Offguard, Peculiar Light, some DOTs to manage, Bad Breath, can interrupt with Flying Sardine, can soak with Diamondback, etc. I can see a place for it to get some kind of 'buff ally with an effect that provides damage indirectly' skill or another