Astrologian Speculations! How will it fit in?

[Wizarus]

Gut feeling tells me Healing over Time focused with situational burst healing and standard Cure spell. Cant really see them risking gimmick stuff on a Healing class, you want Healers to be fairly simplistic.

[TheMunimai]

Gut feeling tells me Healing over Time focused with situational burst healing and standard Cure spell. Cant really see them risking gimmick stuff on a Healing class, you want Healers to be fairly simplistic.

They've confirmed how Astrologians will play - they will stance dance between "big" heals (whm) and damage mitigation (sch) effectively playing both of their roles.

They have said the stances won't be switchable easily...maybe a cast timer like a Scholar's pets? (easily changeable with a swiftcast).

They've also said that Astrologians can "draw" cards and either use them straight away or combine them.

[Wizarus]

They've confirmed how Astrologians will play - they will stance dance between "big" heals (whm) and damage mitigation (sch) effectively playing both of their roles.

They have said the stances won't be switchable easily...maybe a cast timer like a Scholar's pets? (easily changeable with a swiftcast).

They've also said that Astrologians can "draw" cards and either use them straight away or combine them.

Interesting. Going to assume they'll have lowest DPS to compensate? Hate to see Dual Astrologians being optimal.

[Kuwagami]

Interesting. Going to assume they'll have lowest DPS to compensate? Hate to see Dual Astrologians being optimal.

huh ? where would you see that ?

Even if they were to be as efficient as WHM/SCH in their proper stance in healing/shielding respectively, you'd still lose the fairy's healing by going 2 AST. Depending on the stance changing timer, it could go pretty bad for the group...

the most likely situation to happen is each stance being a bit weaker than the counterpart, the difference being made up by the stance change. IE, AST will have a bit less raw healing power than WHM in healing mode, and a bit less shielding power than SCH in shielding mode (or less heal for similar shielding, because the loss of the fairy is a slight nerf in potency by itself)