Please buff AST

Please buff AST, please buff AST. Why is WHM stronger than AST? It's not fair.

Also nerf shield healers

Dear devs, please nerf scissors. Rock is well balanced.

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*To Eos*
Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

the job that nearly every top 10 W1st race teams have been using for the entire expansion needs a buff, yeah right

shield healers have also had significantly worse numbers than either regen healer

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Originally Posted by Azurarok

the job that nearly every top 10 W1st race teams have been using for the entire expansion needs a buff, yeah right

shield healers have also had significantly worse numbers than either regen healer

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To be fair shield healers have an expectation of some form of responsibility baked into them

Regen healers just do whatever they want so the WHM>SCH>SGE>AST play rate isn’t surprising

It’s not like SCH needs another buff

Oh this is about the play rate, now how strong or weak the jobs actually are?
Well then is easy, Yoshi P, please make it so that WHMs fail to log in ~50% of the time until they switch jobs. Done! :D

(this is sarcasm, if it wasn't obvious)

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

It’s not like SCH needs another buff

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I dunno, what if it's a literal buff? Swollene as a new fairy? Just a max height max muscle male Roe in a fairy outfit?

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

To be fair shield healers have an expectation of some form of responsibility baked into them

Regen healers just do whatever they want so the WHM>SCH>SGE>AST play rate isn’t surprising

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The main reason I choose WHM over the other healers is if I want to just play a job that has a sizeable and noticeable burst without relying on a third party software to see the big numbers. The instant Afflatus Misery feels really nice and gets the dopamine going (SGE sadly doesn't give the same feeling at all). The straightforwardness of WHM is sometimes nice too when I get tired of SCH/SGE/AST gameplay. Not needing to micromanage heals is sometimes refreshing, but that's probably because I micromanage my hp bar/healing all the time in PvP so that's probably why I just default to WHM these days for a different change of pace.

Maybe that's part of the reason why other people default to WHM too, it's just very straightforward to play after a long day and they just want to do content with something that doesn't require too much micromanagement.

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Originally Posted by Carighan

I dunno, what if it's a literal buff? Swollene as a new fairy? Just a max height max muscle male Roe in a fairy outfit?

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I'll take it, give me 100. Bonus points if the Seraph form is also affected by max height max muscle male Roe transformation and spooks someone.

So the game should only be balanced for the top 10 players? That's ridiculous. It should be balanced for everyone!

WHM was falling behind AST in both LHW and CW, and while it does do well in FRU, due to how much lilies can take advantage of downtime, PCT still made AST the more preferred pick back when it was new. I think this is the closest they've been this expac.

AST's personal damage is bad because a lot of its output depends largely on the party due to its buff-focused design, which statics can make the most out of by gathering raid gear to their strongest burster on top of just having better coordination to align buffs than pugs normally could do.

Heavyweight is also pretty unfriendly for melee uptime (which really should be happening as often if they insist on the phys range tax), and I'd expect AST's numbers to do better as players gear up more and get more used to the fights.

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Originally Posted by lisaa

So the game should only be balanced for the top 10 players? That's ridiculous. It should be balanced for everyone!

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Yeah, which is why AST is so strong and so flexible. It's so that everyone can easily heal through most situations given the plethora at skills available, while being more lenient towards gaps in personal nuke uptime due to the higher percentage of damage coming from buffs (which are oGCD).

Again, everyone else loves ASTs in their groups, seems to be just you that somehow does worse than everyone else does with the job.

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Originally Posted by Azurarok

Heavyweight is also pretty unfriendly for melee uptime (which really should be happening as often if they insist on the phys range tax), and I'd expect AST's numbers to do better as players gear up more and get more used to the fights.

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Interestingly, the difference between Ranged and Melee in M10S is really small (I'm looking at 75th% currently). As you go up the %'s the gap gets wider, sure, but overall the disparity seems a lot less impactful on this 2target fight.

Then looking at all the other, singletarget focused fights, the gap reappears, and on M12S P1 (because it's shorter in duration) the gap's even wider.

Maybe SE needs to have more multitarget situations in raids, since Ranged seem to benefit more from them with their Job designs?


Once everyone is BIS, then we'll have to look at how AST's doing again. I expect it'll be the best on all fights except M10S, where WHM will barely eke out the top spot because of Misery. But since AST was present for week 1 clears (despite certain streamers saying 'don't take AST the damage is doodoo'), and indeed every Healer was in week 1 clears, I don't think how much damage A vs B is doing even matters

Yeah even these forums again had a waa waa raid exclusion about Summoners specifically this time, and PRanged in general. And what happened? All the week 1 groups had Summoners because as always it's the caster best to dodge mechanics with meanwhile the damage difference is entirely irrelevant as every time people pretend it'd be meaningful. And dead casters do the least DPS, hence everyone being on their Summoners.

I see that the free login period has brought back all sort of posts.