Astro no gap closer?

Is Astro the only healer job class with no gap closer ability? Sage has Icarus, White Mage will have Aetherial Shift, and Scholar has Expedient. Granted Expedient isn't a gap closer, but it's better than nothing. We are the busy healer job, buffing everyone, but no ability to save ourselves in a rough situation.

Why is Astro the only class not getting such an ability? :confused:

I wouldn't really call expedient a gap closer.
Because if you do, then we do have one, it's called sprint.

AST will get a gap closer in 8.0 and SCH will get one in 9.0 that teleports them to where their fairy is.

Enough homogenization. I’d prefer to tackle AST’s movement issues through getting more stacks of or lowering the cooldown of Lightspeed, doing the mechanic in their own unique way.

I mean they got Lightspeed. Potentially not required to be used within reopeners now? Why do they even need gapcloser?

Ast is the only healer that full range capabilities , no need to be anywhere nears its target . Maybe some sort movements ability but definitely no need for a gap closer

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Originally Posted by Sylvain

I wouldn't really call expedient a gap closer.
Because if you do, then we do have one, it's called sprint.

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This, I really wish people would stop looking at Expedient like it's SCH's gap closer, its a group movement mitigation buff and will always be budgeted to be used that way given how people chart their buffs along a timeline for mitigations. And knowing when and where to use a gap closer is more of a personal consideration than a group one (exceptions being when a static would like to utilize it to compliment w/e strat they're using for any given thing).

I do think gap closers on healers is a good form of homogenization because the healers w/o them now look like basically look like they lack basic survival instincts compared to the other two, despite having the more intricate and interworking kits of the 4 healers. Just seems off to me.

AST doesn't need a gap closer (WHM didn't need one either). They have their own way to address movement - its called Lightspeed.

I wish I had a gap closer like white mage i kept dying from not being able to gapclose like the others fast enough in this one duty not spoiling but it would have been great to have what whitemage got in dt

Putting my vote on a second lightspeed charge. Surely that's the most that's needed when there are still other jobs without gap closers out there.

Probably because it doesn't need one. I mained Astro for over 2 years in Endwalker and at no point felt like I needed a gapcloser. I don't think the other healers need it, either.