RIP Astrologian

[AzraelX]

Ok 1st they said u can change with a long cooldown and now no change. The guy from reddit said a lot of stuff is not even finalized so take it as a grain of salt

[SDaemon]

Exactly, if I wanted to WHM or SCH i'd choose either or but to be able to swap between them on one job would've been fun

Instead you get to be SCH-esque or WHM-esque for any given battle. SCHs and WHMs don't have that option.

[Yuri_Hyuga]

Honestly the fact astralogian can do both is already really strong borderline OP...

Nah, plenty of ways to balance & design for it.

[NovaLevossida]

They're a healer and FFXI Corsair rolled into one, so I'm okay if they can't switch stance in battle. Having two of these guys is better than having 2 WHMs or 2 SCHs because one Astro can switch to make sure they cover both roles.

[Cynfael]

could you imagine the pressure the party would place on them? expecting them to be some wonderful do all fix all?

How would this be a departure from healer status quo?

[Ashkendor]

i agree with squares decision to disallow stance change mid combat it feels like it would really balance it out.

Pretty much. It'd be overpowered if they could just switch on a whim unless the skills were watered down.

and if they could switch stances mid combat could you imagine the pressure the party would place on them? expecting them to be some wonderful do all fix all?

Isn't this pretty much what healer life is anyway? :3

[Zfz]

On the other hand, it means the two stances can have a real difference. If you are allowed to switch in battle, then every skill of the one stance must be balanced against every skill of the other stance as well. That would be very complicated and will result in too much of a variance in player performance, meaning the job as a whole becomes too difficult to balance.

[Viridiana]

Source?

Seriously, guys, information is spread all over the place at the moment. Is it too much to ask that threads link to sources?

[dice137]

Why are we telling AST to RIP when it's not even out yet? All because of stances? Really?

[Kukajoo]

How would this be a departure from healer status quo?

Isn't this pretty much what healer life is anyway? :3

because astralogian is a new healing class with alot of intricacies that we don't understand yet
at least most understand the abilities and limitations of what a whm and sch can and cant do right now.
but astralogian can cover both of what each can do to an extent. im not saying healers as of now receive no pressure at all
but we just dont understand astralogian and i feel there are going to be many overexpecting what its going to be able to do