Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[LycorisSelunis]

just remembered one more point I wanted to make...

Enhanced Benefic- Benefic 2 instant cast proc has similar issues to lightspeed in execution- perhaps make the proc have Benefic2 off GCD.

[kiraan]

Please switch gravity to a lvl 50 or less spell, its sad to not being able to do any AoE on lvl 50 dungeons at all like WHM and SCH

[LycorisSelunis]

Please switch gravity to a lvl 50 or less spell, its sad to not being able to do any AoE on lvl 50 dungeons at all like WHM and SCH

Dear god yes this... so frustrating! Honestly this and lightspeed were my largest gripes pre 50. Lightspeed just really irks me! It's our only real CD but we don't get crap for using it!

[GideonHighmourn]

I tested the Expanded Royal Road buff earlier, the exact radius is 10y~. It's the same as Deployment Tactics, and 2y (25%) larger than the radius of Holy. With Deployment Tactics, I find it hard to hit every group member during certain encounters, especially when movement is involved; I often resort to positioning Eos/Selene in the center, and using Adlo/E4E on her, and deploying from that location since I can't use it on myself. Luckily, AST can use Expanded cards on themselves as the center.

Expanded Royal Road buff is relatively small; it should be at least 15y, considering you're giving up a large portion of the potency of the original buff and also skipping a card draw in order to receive the AoE effect. It's also a very short duration boost, which only allows most people to use 5~ GCDs in that time frame.

[Krixus]

Well just finished the vault as 57 astro, i135 (which is rather low for what you could have there, also 59 lvl cap). Healing the final boss was rough towards the end, but I did it 1/1. And I promise you that could go south on any healer easily. So to anyone lossing all faith in astro from this nonsense thread, know that the job is working just fine in the right hands. I am willing to bet we will receive a small buff in the future though.

[Vlady]

Se was wise to go this route. Astro doesn't need a healing buff and light speed doesn't seem intended as a oh shite cool down. Astro support and flexibility is it's strength. It's equivalent to bards from 2.1 to now with slightly weaker pure healing as compensation for the buffs. Buff astro any in healing and you shove white mage under the bus. Plus you don't know how astro will perform in alexander.

[Shamirah]

@Krixus : again you totally miss the point : we are not saying you can't heal stupid useless dungeon. You can. We are saying that AST being BELOW the other two healers will make him unwanted. If a + b are better than C. You'll take A and B and left out C. C is AST in this situation.

@Vlady : lol @ saying ast buffs are equivalent to bards. Just no. Bards is a guaranteed damage boost, guaranteed tp regen, guaranteed mana regen when you want it. You can use it whenever it sees the best use. You can't with ast and it's not as strong.

And buffing AST potency will not make them outshine WHM since we have shitty cds.

[Krixus]

@Krixus : again you totally miss the point

Not missing the point, I clearly see what you are saying. I just think you guys are underestimating the buffs. 45 second 10% dmg buff on your top dps makes a nice difference, and its really not that uncommon. Also if you pull a card you dont want you can cancel it in the buff icons and save 15 seconds, so draw is on 30 second cycles instead of 45 (with waiting an unwanted card out). I parse everything ive done so far and the dps im buffing always soars over the other.

Why take a whm + sch when you can do Ast + Sch and get double buffs? Open you eyes people! Good players in progression content will be able to heal perfectly fine, the potency is just shy of a whm. I wonder how many here even play the job, or just repeat what they have heard.

[Shamirah]

No. In theory it's all great. In practice it is not. Yeah you can be really usefull if you have good RNG. But I did several dungeon runs where I got like 2 freaking Balance. Otherwise it's mostly TP/MP/Spear cards. That's the main issue. I like RNG, but i don't like the fact that most of our cards are really useless or niche.

All the cards should be worth using outside of RRing them.

[Dyvid]

Okay, well has anyone actually taking AST to Coil or even CT/EX? I'm curious on how people are feeling it in actually end game scenarios.