Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Dayala]

The issues I see with Astro, as far as speed runs / end game is concerned is the unreliable use of the buffs being pulled out. It's just not a viable tool to use end game when you need a specific buff right then. Getting the TP card 7 times in a row is BS and infuriating.

Also, Light Speed is garbage - it makes you insta-cast but you still have to wait 2.5 seconds to re-use and the mana drain is significant, the 25% reduction of potency is pointless - if it's insta cast, it should be insta cast including a lower cool down or no cool down on the spells you are spamming it with. They should decrease the length of time it's available and increase the cool-down time on Light Speed so it's not abused. There's too many negatives to use it as a oh crap button.

Personally, Astro should be something similar to COR in FFXI, where you picked a buff and depending on the roll you got, the potency of it was affected (lucky numbers, unlucky numbers, etc) Letting "Fate" lead the cards is so stressful and unecessary. You could use this job in raids, but it's unreliable the way it is now. It needs tweaking, a lot.

We need more control on the cards, buffs. The abilities from Royal Road / Shuffle should still work the same but something called "Fate" or some BS name to do a % of potency instead of juggling cards. It really takes away from healing when you have to look at cards and think what to do with them, if you should save it for later, etc.

At least if we can pick what card to draw and let fate decide the %potency it would still fit with the lore / class and give the player a little more control.

The lower healing potency is complete utter crap, not even sure why that's a thing when SCH and WHM are on par with each other on potency.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

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Randomness is the main feature of AST, as well with adaptability with the Sects. We knew that since it was announced, yet everyone was hyped about it.

Also, what you ask of Lightspeed is not instant cast - is off cd infinite instant casts for 15 seconds. Really?