Question about Ishgardian Astrologians

I'm not very far in the Astrologian but I'm just curioius: Why do Ishgardian Astrologians looks at the Sharlayan teaching with disdain?
I mean, what is the negative to having a access to knowledge that doesn't have to deal with just the Dravanian Horde and having access to magick?
Is it just because they're Sharlayan?

From what I gathered from the intro quest, it's because the Ishgardian Astrologians don't have time to gaze at the stars and think. Everything they do, like the rest of Ishgard, is for the war effort against the Dravanian Horde, so spending time to do anything else is considered a waste.

But wouldn't learning a new form of healing magick and buffing help with that? >o>

In theory, yes. Still, I have yet to see any Ishgardian soldiers who aren't martial weapon wielders; they're all dragoons or lancers or something.

AST is implied to be a job that takes a lot of training to use the magicks it's capable of. If it doesn't provide an immediate benefit to the war effort (and, like every class, we're prodigy ASTs), Ishgardians don't care.

The Machinist story also, as far as I've seen, has brought up that most of them are so hung up on tradition that they wouldn't notice a new asset to the war effort if it went off in their ear. So I suppose there's that, too?

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

But wouldn't learning a new form of healing magick and buffing help with that? >o>

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Originally Posted by Cilia

In theory, yes. Still, I have yet to see any Ishgardian soldiers who aren't martial weapon wielders; they're all dragoons or lancers or something.

AST is implied to be a job that takes a lot of training to use the magicks it's capable of. If it doesn't provide an immediate benefit to the war effort (and, like every class, we're prodigy ASTs), Ishgardians don't care.

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SPOILER WARNING

Part of the AST job quest series entails winning over Ishgardian soldiers (ordinary ones), and a few of them do open up a bit when they see what you can do in/after battle -- ie the practical application of your magicks.

I think Leveva made a big point about it in the L35 AST quest, that the strong don't want anything that could empower the weak. Though it weas mostly a rant about Sharlayan's ruling quarter, that probably does factor into Ishgard's rigid mindset.

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Originally Posted by Zohar_Lahar

I think Leveva made a big point about it in the L35 AST quest, that the strong don't want anything that could empower the weak. Though it weas mostly a rant about Sharlayan's ruling quarter, that probably does factor into Ishgard's rigid mindset.

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She does use it to mean both. First stating it about the Ishgardians, then saying the Sharlayans are also guilty for it.