Revamping Astrologian

[PetiteMalFleur]

I committed to make this class my main and leveled it to 60. Last few nights have been doing primals and decided to switch back to Scholar.

The cure potency is just too low. I feel it. I have to heal more to make up for it which means more mana. Lowering our cure potency yet having the same mp cost is really a strain. I found myself constantly using spread on ewer and trying to royal road a second ewer just to make up for this. This consumed two potential raid buffs on myself or my Whm counterpart who was also having to heal more to make up for where I was falling behind. I lacked the ability to patch heal. Synastry was great and saved me mana but the CD was just way too long. Essential dignity CD is also too long. I had to use it on CD to save mana and really lacked any other means of patch healing.

There's too much rng to be a consistent support class. The drk kept having tp issues and sometimes I'd get spire for him sometimes not. Shuffle is pointless because we can draw the same card. The class has so much rng they should have at least made shuffle so we don't draw the same card. I don't need the same card if I shuffle it. Dnt get me wrong, I enjoy the rng of this class but we should have some way to reduce it. I can't do anything when I draw the same card over and over.

We have no way to patch heal. Collective unconscious is impractical in movement heavy fights. On my scholar I could E4E the tank reliably for consistent mitigation. Virus also didn't just mitigate a single hit and would last a full 10 seconds to help with hard hitting adds. On astrologian I would be praying for a bole when our tank was getting trucked and even if I got it up it still didn't feel like enough. I just felt like I was being carried too much with the healing when I never felt like that as a dps scholar.

I hardly used royal road. The buffs I did get were too important to get out. I didn't feel comfortable eating a card for royal road without first using spread to hold the card I'd be buffing. The CD on spread is also too long so I was really at the mercy of rng in using whichever card became available. I loved getting 6 ewer in a row because of how fast I'd go oom otherwise but I shouldn't need to use that many on myself.

My team was struggling to meet dps checks. One dps had an i145 weapon so it became necessary for me to dps. Unfortunately I didn't have any way to support my cohealer while I did so. No virus, no E4E, and as I said, my insta heal was always on CD. The cards were just to unreliable too make to for the dps I could have done as a scholar by using them to buff the raid. Synastry was only useful if I was actively healing so I had to save it for after my Whm started to fall behind when I was in clerics and had to switch stance to heal. It would take much longer to help catch up with topping off the raid than it would have on my scholar.

That said, that class is super fun. I love doing 4 man content with it. Seeing the dps go ham with the buffs is very satisfying. For ARR lazy healing the class would be fine. But for progression raiding whm and sch just bring too much that astrologian just doesn't when looking at all the post 50 skills they got. Astrologian is very much meh on being a reliable support or healing class.

A shorter CD on draw, spread, shuffle and no CD on royal road would help a lot. Buff potency and lower mp cost of skills. We have too little in the way of mana refresh. Increase potency of our dots. It just isn't enough when scholar has bane and shadow flare.