Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Aphel]

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It'll get better as you fill out your gear while grinding Laws. My gear's all ilvl 160 + 4 pieces of Law including weapon and as long as the tanks don't chain pull it's quite alright. Some nasty mobs will hit your tank/party hard no matter how high your ilvl is I suspect.

In Fractal Continuum 2 mobs are extremely dangerous: A flying Naga creature (forgot its full name) that will AOE your party for huge damage. That Iron Knight creature that will swipe your tank/party for HUGE damage after it has overpowered itself. This swipe took an ilvl 160 Pally from 100% to 20%, though I didn't check if he was using CDs or not.

In Neverreap there's also 2 mobs: Stinging bees that hit for a crapload of damage if not killed in time. Those Elbst (lizards with sharp teeth) that debuffs your tank with Vuln.

Prepare your best wombo combo (RRed Bole + Regen + Aspected Helios + Time Dilation + Opposition on tank) in anticipation for these mobs.

Yes it is very rough for a fresh 60 AST but once you're geared out it'll be fine. In Neverreap, the last boss had 50% health left and a DPS dropped off the platform. Since he couldn't be resurrected, we had to make do with 3 people. The fight took so long that the live DPS was able to LB 1 twice. We ended victorious with me still having ~40% mp. It would have been absolutely impossible if I was a fresh AST.