Synastry is a bit op.

[Nague]

even if that actually worked, you would use 3 big CDs for that.

[SaintK]

Lol.

Seriously dude? Your pet heals 40 times in Synastry's cool down duration. Our benefic 1 is only 80 more potency than embrace. Meanwhile, you're also healing, using emergency tactics every thirty seconds and your pet sac healing buff? Don't even try seriously, lol. Every healer out there knows SCH is in its own league in terms of the healers.

[Poisonous]

Maybe it's OP? But the rest of Astrologian is so broken and weak that Synastry is the only thing keeping my party up during Vault's final boss.

[Psychosamm]

Just gonna throw this in here, did a little experiment with my sch friend. With me on Warrior with defiance up, along with convo he did
Fey Illumination
Dissipate
Emergency tactics
Pot of Mind
Crit Adlo #1 7.2k heal, #2 14.3k heal

But yeah, AST it totes OP. Will add in battle log screenshot later if anyone wants to see. ;D

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Just gonna throw this in here, did a little experiment with my sch friend. With me on Warrior with defiance up, along with convo he did
Fey Illumination
Dissipate
Emergency tactics
Pot of Mind
Crit Adlo #1 7.2k heal, #2 14.3k heal

But yeah, AST it totes OP. Will add in battle log screenshot later if anyone wants to see. ;D

This is not a news.

How many times can you use that combo during a fight?

Also, why would you need Emergency Tactics in there? To simulate a Benediction? How in hell do you think a simil-Benediction would help in any way if you have so much setup? Whoever you are trying to heal will be already dead after you are done with all your pretty buffs.

There is no point in judging combos in a vacuum. Think practical.

[Psychosamm]

This is not a news.

How many times can you use that combo during a fight?

Also, why would you need Emergency Tactics in there? To simulate a Benediction? How in hell do you think a simil-Benediction would help in any way if you have so much setup? Whoever you are trying to heal will be already dead after you are done with all your pretty buffs.

There is no point in judging combos in a vacuum. Think practical.

Clearly that test was just to see how high it could go. Obviously no sch would try to get this combo going in an actual raid. The point is the OP is bitching about 1 skill in AST's arsenal that is powerful, when now SCH is now the prime solo healer. They have almost nothing to worry about anymore with aoe healing, indom is extremely powerful, and on a relatively short CD, that along with emergency tactics succor, and rouse + fey illumination whispering dawn. They still have 6 lustrates to potentially use at will, with deployment tactics thrown in for an awesome party shield. Meanwhile out of all the healers they STILL have the best mana management.

The point is, please run along somewhere else if you think AST is OP.

[Donarudo]

Oh are we playing this game?

Then lets factor in the significantly more potent direct heals that Astrologian gets for raw healing that scholar's fairy + the scholar can barely scratch. Then WHM absolutely craps bricks on the Scholar's actual healing healing.

Cure 2 = 650 potency and aldoquium with emergency tactics (30s cd) heals for 600 and costs a cluster of mana. Benefic 2 that is spammable is 620 potency.

Furthermore AST has a ton of HoT power that can easily make up for the lack of fairy.

Sorry you don't know what you're talking about. I have played nothing but Astro since the 19th, and I can assure you what you are saying is false in regards to the Astro. By the way I main a SCH. Frankly unless you played the job you wouldn't know the many short comings it has.

[Donarudo]

Bull.

You might want to look at the potency of AST abilities. You also might want to think about the high level of situation mana usage AST's have to manage. You might actually want to play the job to fully understand it. If you have played AST and still think what you do then yeah....you're wrong.

[Lacifarus]

I started out playing Astro this expansion, and while hands down it is the most fun healer, it is no where near as powerful as sch. I leveled my sch a bit to see the difference and once I got Indom I never went back to astro. Sch only gets better with higher levels. I used to prefer my whm over my sch but I feel it might be even stronger then whm now, granted my whm is still at 50.

Basically, astro is nowhere near sch in terms of healing output, utility, mitigation, anything really. It is way more fun imo though and if they look at the class a bit and change a few things around I'll probably go back to it.

[Krixus]

I started out playing Astro this expansion, and while hands down it is the most fun healer, it is no where near as powerful as sch. I leveled my sch a bit to see the difference and once I got Indom I never went back to astro. Sch only gets better with higher levels. I used to prefer my whm over my sch but I feel it might be even stronger then whm now, granted my whm is still at 50.

Basically, astro is nowhere near sch in terms of healing output, utility, mitigation, anything really. It is way more fun imo though and if they look at the class a bit and change a few things around I'll probably go back to it.

Sooo you lvled astro a couple times and then got sch higher. Getting better gear and new abilities, with little astro experience, and then comment that sch is better... I guess that speaks for itself. I need to stop responding to these people who have no idea what they are talking about.