What I think AST identity as a healer should've been

I've spent considerable amount of time writing what I think AST identity as a healer should've been. Feedbacks are most welcomed.

AST in Endwalker is considered a pure healing job.
AST's identity as a healer focuses on time based strong regen healing while providing various useful buffs to party from their card system. Therefore, any spells that apply barriers should be removed or reworked.


Collective Unconscious (reworked)
Creates a celestial ring around the caster
Additional effect: Delay a portion of all damage received, converting them into debuffs which instead taking it over 10 second. Cannot be dispelled
Applies Wheel of Fortune to self and any party members who enter
Wheel of Fortune regen potency and duration remain unchanged
90 second cooldown
Instead of mitigating 10% damage like all other healing classes, AST's uniqueness is to delay all damage received in a short period of time inside Collective Unconscious


Celestial Intersection (reworked)
For the next 8 seconds, you can apply Aspected Benefict and Aspected Helios regen effect twice on the same target
30 second cooldown
Double regen effect on same target


Time Dilation (replaces Neutral Sect)
Extends the duration of all your regen time effects on party members within 15y by 10 seconds
Additional effect: Increases regen healing potency by 30% and increase their critical chance by 50%
120 second cooldown
Pairs well with reworked Celestial Intersection to extend double regen effect and increase regen healing potency by 30%


Exaltation (reworked)
Target self or a party member, all your healing over time effects heal 50% faster for 8 second
Additional effect: Restores HP at the end of the effect's duration
Cure potency: 500
60 30 second cooldown
Get 2 charges at lvl 88 from Enchanced Celestial Intersection Enhanced Exaltation
Speeds up regen effect for faster regen


Draw (reworked)
Draw only has 1 charge
30 second cooldown
Reverts back to ShB version, which I find being much smoother to use followed by having 3 * Redraw attempts


Redraw (reworked)
Has 3 charges
30 second cooldown for each charge
Reverts back to ShB version, higher chance to achieve 3 different signs for Astrodyne


Minor Arcana (reworked)
Is now a passive ability and no longer has a cooldown
Each time you cast Draw, you also draw a random Minor Arcana (Lord or Lady)
Each time you cast Redraw, you also redraw a random Minor Arcana (can still get the same card)


Play (reworked)
The first cast always triggers the effect of your drawn arcanum from Draw
Pressing Play the second time triggers the effect of your drawn arcanum from Minor Arcana
Play will always prioritize casting cards drawn from Draw, so u can still save Lady or Crown for 30 seconds until the next Draw

The Balance (SB version)
Increase damage dealt by a party member or self by 6% if target is melee DPS or tank, or 3% for all other roles.
Duration: 15s
Melee DPS buff


The Arrow (SB version)
Increases damage dealt by a party member or self by 6% if target is melee range DPS or tank, or 3% for all other roles.
Duration: 15s
Range DPS buff


The Spear (SB version)
Increases critical chance to a party member or self by 6%.
Duration: 15s
Increase critical chance


The Bole (SB version)
Increases healing potency by a party member or self by 6% if target is healer, or 3% for all other roles.
Duration: 15s
Increase healing potency


The Ewer (SB version)
Gradually restores own MP or the MP of a target party member.
Potency: 50
Duration: 15s
Mana regen


The Spire (reworked)
Increases skill & spell speed to a party member or self by 6%.
Duration: 15s
Reduces the default Global Cool Down (GCD) based on the amount of Skill Speed you have


Crown Play (removed)


Neutral Sect (removed and replaced by Time Dilation)
We are not barrier healers


Horoscope (removed)
Removed as AST moved towards stronger regen healing and also due button clogging


AST new DPS mechanic:
Carte Blanche (Passive): Summon aetherial cards that deal unaspected damage to your target each time you cast Draw, Redraw or Play.
Potency: 80
Additional effect: Gain a Carte Blanche buff that can stack up to 5 times
Possible sequencing:
Draw, Play (Arcanum) & Play (Minor Arcana) gives you 3 stacks and dealt 240 potency damage
Draw, Redraw, Play (Arcanum) & Play (Minor Arcana) gives you 4 stacks and dealt 320 potency damage
Draw, Redraw, Redraw, Play (Arcanum) & Play (Minor Arcana) gives you 5 stacks and dealt 400 potency damage
Draw, Redraw, Redraw, Redraw, Play (Arcanum) gives you 5 stacks and dealt 400 potency damage


Carte Finale (OGCD)
Instant cast
Can only be executed with 5 stacks off Carte Blanche buff
Deal unaspected damage to a target and grant you a unique Arcanum to your missing astrosigns
Potency: 250
Gives you your missing sign especially for Astrodyne

I don't see why you would start from the premise that "AST is considered a pure healing job that Therefore, any spells that apply barriers should be removed or reworked." so first, fundamentally disagree with you there. Just as there is no need to completely remove any regen skills where there exist on shield healers, do you want to remove regen skills like the fairy regen or sacred soli regen, for example?

Secondly, you're re-introducing card changes into the bole, etc that I imagine that you miss. personally i don't want to introduce fishing for that just the right combination out of all those permutations, which is what you introduce when 6 variables are thrown into selection. I do realize that you're re-working redraw and trying to improve Astrodyne but I don't think that Astrodyne is so significant and the current change to divination works out better and is more significant overall in EW.

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Originally Posted by IDontPetLalas

I don't see why you would start from the premise that "AST is considered a pure healing job that Therefore, any spells that apply barriers should be removed or reworked." so first, fundamentally disagree with you there. Just as there is no need to completely remove any regen skills where there exist on shield healers, do you want to remove regen skills like the fairy regen or sacred soli regen, for example?

Secondly, you're re-introducing card changes into the bole, etc that I imagine that you miss. personally i don't want to introduce fishing for that just the right combination out of all those permutations, which is what you introduce when 6 variables are thrown into selection. I do realize that you're re-working redraw and trying to improve Astrodyne but I don't think that Astrodyne is so significant and the current change to divination works out better and is more significant overall in EW.

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AST is considered pure healing class in EW after SE removed nocturnal sect. Before they are flexible and can switch stance between being a regen and barrier healers. The barrier removal / changes i mentioned here only apply to AST, which the reworked spells mentioned below helps to compensate for the loss of barrier with stronger regen.

Also, I did not mention anything relating to remove regen skills from fairy or SCH or other jobs other than AST. So if you were to that, you have to think about what you are going to do to compensate for that.

Those were the SB versions card effects I find what makes AST so unique in the first place. Now they all do the same buffs (except you gotta look out for red or blue borders) which I dont understand why they decide to make the change.

I agree about Astrodyne and the rework is just to smooth out the process to access 3 signs Astrodyne which I truly hope they rework it so it feels more significant that what is now.

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Originally Posted by LachleinStratos

AST is considered pure healing class in EW after SE removed nocturnal sect. Before they are flexible and can switch stance between being a regen and barrier healers. The barrier removal / changes i mentioned here only apply to AST, which the reworked spells mentioned below helps to compensate for the loss of barrier with stronger regen.

Also, I did not mention anything relating to remove regen skills from fairy or SCH or other jobs other than AST. So if you were to that, you have to think about what you are going to do to compensate for that.

Those were the SB versions card effects I find what makes AST so unique in the first place. Now they all do the same buffs (except you gotta look out for red or blue borders) which I dont understand why they decide to make the change.

I agree about Astrodyne and the rework is just to smooth out the process to access 3 signs Astrodyne which I truly hope they rework it so it feels more significant that what is now.

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Perhaps you misunderstood my comment. i'll rephrase it. Being a "pure" healer in no way, shape or form means that an AST needs or should lose ALL shielding capability, we have only been moved to losing on -demand shieds i.e. nocturnal sect. Therefore so I completely disagree with your proposed changes to remove them via various skills (e.g. Celestial Opposition) unless or until you demonstrate that they override shield healer's shields.

My point related to shield healers is that why should AST lose the now very limited shield capabilities when you aren't proposing to remove regen abilities from shield healers? if they are shield healers based upon your philosophy then they do not deserve pure healer skills.

Honestly, looks absolutely horrible. Clunky long duration HoTs, lots of overheal potential, half the cards are rubbish, access to shields and mitigation gone. Once you've used up Collective (now a longer CD) and CeOpp, you're reduced to GCD healing.

I see what you're trying to think of, but I wouldn't touch a healer like that with a 10 foot pole.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Honestly, looks absolutely horrible. Clunky long duration HoTs, lots of overheal potential, half the cards are rubbish, access to shields and mitigation gone. Once you've used up Collective (now a longer CD) and CeOpp, you're reduced to GCD healing.

I see what you're trying to think of, but I wouldn't touch a healer like that with a 10 foot pole.

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Still better than WHM.

While I am in favor of AST being a regen healer quite frankly to achieve that you only need to do 3 things, debate on whether you want to change 2 more, and then fix 1 thing:

First the 3 things: Remove Benefic 1 + 2 and Helios and readjust A. Benefic and A. Helios in terms of leveling.

Next figure out if you want to keep Celestial Intersection and Neutral Sect. I personally would not mind if Exaltation replaced CI. And I personally never wanted Neutral even back in Shb. So that's up for debate.

Last, make Synastry work with more single target abilities: Exaltation, CI if it remains, A. Benefic, ED and if you want Astrodyne.


After that, we can adjust the cards and Astrodyne's buff if we want, but there's the barebones of making AST a regen/time based healer.

The current effects of the skills you want to change (not the cards) to me is fine. And still works under the theme of regen healer.

quite frankly if we're going to have a proper heal/shield split, then removing barriers is entirely the right way to go

that being said, I'm afraid i do got agree on potencies. The cards are too weak to feel or see without a parser, the hot potencies are absurd