Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[HolyKelistae]

I've gotta say, from what little I have seen thus far of Astrologian, it looks to be a really good middleman between White Mage and Scholar.

The job class intro was very interesting and I love how they introduced each card buff one by one instead of thrusting all six them at you at once. I admit, it was a little confusing at first but Im sure that's nothing a few dungeon runs and a few fiddlings of Draw won't fix in the future.

Can't wait to see more of the class as I climb through the levels!

[sharazisspecial]

Some of the card names aren't very intuitive imo...

Though after using them a billion times you will learn each effect

AST is very good and they have two accuracy ignoring DOTS .

[Alexia89]

I actually memorised the cards before realising I'd only done one of the two level 30 quests. Was quite pleased to see they teach you the cards in the second quest, will definitely help some.

As for the gameplay- I was mildly interested until 35. Then Royal Road came into play and I just fell in love. I absolutely love the RNG of it all- taking gambles and seeing them pay off excites me to no end. Now I have Shuffle, and seeing how damn well it interacts with Royal Road is just... the entire job seems so well crafted.

Kudos, SqEnix. All I ever wanted was Dancer.... but this will do just fine til you decide to throw that in game ;P

[loreleidiangelo]

In good hands, it seems to be slightly OP, but I think the moderately high learning curve will put all but the most dedicated off of it. I was concerned at first that it wouldn't be challenging enough for me, but having to make decisions on the fly about how and when to use your card abilities has given me more entertainment than I thought.

[Donarudo]

Started this morning just like everybody else. This healing on the fly is great. The rng for the draw/Royal Road is amazing. I didn't start to fully understand the capacity of the job until I really started paying attention to the fact that you can do aoe with cycleing through royal road. Once I figured that out the gates opened up, and the healing and buffs just got interesting. Great Job, and I am sticking with this.

[SulwynCaliope]

I'm in love with the class. I mained SCH because of the utility it brings to the group. However, I've never felt like it brought enough support. With AST, I get the perfect middle point between juggling healing and supporting my team. I feel like the cards add an extra dimension to the gameplay and I actually have to think about what I'm doing instead of just mindlessly mashing buttons. Thank you so much SE for AST.

[LycorisSelunis]

I am super duper in love with this class but the higher level I get the worse it seems to handle things, I am getting to the point where the lowered potency is simply not cutting it-bene2 spam with aspect bene and ED and they still die. Perhaps it wouldn't be as bad if I didn't also run out of MP so fast. If you're gonna give me weak heals at least make them cheap T^T Maybe it's just overconfident tanks pulling too much and I am unlucky, idk.

That being said everything else I am in love with. Cards are fantastic! Everything is gorgeous! It's just about exactly what I hoped it would be. There is depth and complexity with the cards and using then is very engaging to me. I can't wait till I have shuffle! (lvl 43 atm)

The potency thing is really killing me though...when I first heard about it I assumed that only the spells affected by sect would be weaker but even the baseline benefic is weaker than cure. The bene2 proc and lightspeed just scream 'oom coming' and the loss of potency on lightspeed can be a pain (though it has great uses, marvelous concept really). I have decided to at least get AST to 50 to compare to my whm and sch though, a leveling comparison seems unfair. Also Ascend isn't working in macro for some reason? I umpteen checked the spelling...

[Yumi_umi]

Tried healing some harder things like ifrit ex and fcob.
Got to 50 already so atm it feels like there's something missing tht should be there at level 50.
Feels a little lackluster but imo i'll have to see it thru till 60.

[silentwindfr]

i have only one trouble, it's disable, i feel this skill is a junk, even with the later trait, the fact to have a skill with a 60 sec Cooldown, that only reduce the damage of the next attack of 5-10%.... it's way too weak!

for the potency, i wait to see around 50 for see... but i admit the balance of the jobs seems kinda strange, the aspect are too weak for be really helpfull. with the other jobs it was kinda fast possible to alternate dps and healing, here.... it's harder to have time for this. the jobs need to be improved maybe on this aspect.

[MagnificentOxen]

i have only one trouble, it's disable, i feel this skill is a junk, even with the later trait, the fact to have a skill with a 60 sec Cooldown, that only reduce the damage of the next attack of 5-10%.... it's way too weak!

It's a unique debuff that stacks with DK storms and all the other mitigation. It's invaluable.