Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Arcana]

...Which should definitely be changed to lower the cooldown of abilities already on cooldown as well.

Otherwise, you'll likely never use it on anyone except yourself and even then it'll be situational (or it always gets RRed...).

Spear card doesnt affecting abilities on cooldown is in ACCEPTED BUGS. I hope they fix it soon :3 This card will be very useful in that case.

[Miiu]

Spear card doesnt affecting abilities on cooldown is in ACCEPTED BUGS. I hope they fix it soon :3 This card will be very useful in that case.

That is actually great news. Thanks for posting.

[Eraqus]

So spear card SHOULD in truth if it works well affect skill that are ALREADY in cool down? Wow it would rock

[WubstahWulf]

Remember guys the 3 new jobs are still new and people are still learning the new jobs

they arnt even out for that long and people all ready critisize them like they know what they are talking about.

Also most people has not really figured out yet how to play the new jobs correctly

i mean do people remember the days when arcanist AKA summoner/scholar
was announced those JOBS sucked as hell but SE made them better and when heavensward came out they became even much better than they were before.

And most importantly dont critisize anyone on what job they are playing and call there job bad if you dont like that job than keep that to your self let everyone play what they are comfortable with.

[RichardButte]

I would think any intelligent raid leader would allow flexibility rather than "you must play XXX job or get lost" , maybe your raid leader ain't that intelligent too!!

Well said.

Spear card doesnt affecting abilities on cooldown is in ACCEPTED BUGS. I hope they fix it soon :3 This card will be very useful in that case.

Ooh, awesome!

Speaking of which, has the bug where an enhanced Benefic II proc is expended when casting it normally reported as well? I might go do that if not...

[Seryl199]

Speaking of which, has the bug where an enhanced Benefic II proc is expended when casting it normally reported as well? I might go do that if not...

I started noticing this yesterday, when chain casting heals on the tank, it actually put me in a precarious position. I saw the proc pop, and as I finished a hard casted Benefic II, I queued Cleric Stance to put in DPS, only to find that the proc had been consumed by my hard cast, leaving me without a catch-up heal.

[RichardButte]

I started noticing this yesterday, when chain casting heals on the tank, it actually put me in a precarious position. I saw the proc pop, and as I finished a hard casted Benefic II, I queued Cleric Stance to put in DPS, only to find that the proc had been consumed by my hard cast, leaving me without a catch-up heal.

Yeah, just reported it as a bug here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...38#post3084738

Hopefully, they'll get on it.

[Donarudo]

Spear card doesnt affecting abilities on cooldown is in ACCEPTED BUGS. I hope they fix it soon :3 This card will be very useful in that case.

Spear Card works fine. Problem is not everybody in your party is even going to know what spear does for them. In order for the spear card to work you essentially have to inform your party that it is up, and then they can use any ability and it will shorten the timer. Its a matter of communication and others understanding why I just used the card in the first place. What it does not do is reset the time if said ability is already on cool down.

[RoseM]

lvl58 AST now. Healed approximately 10 runs of Vault yesterday. My thoughts so far:

Continue on my own thread. I'm a lvl 60 AST now, healed 10 runs of Ravana EX last time and got my 190 weapon. Thoughts so far:

1. On the healing side, AST can do his job, but his fault tolerance is really low. The reason behind that is AST lacks of burst healing ability. E.g. when the other healer died, I know I can solo heal the party for at least 30sec ish as a WHM, with Divine seal, Presence of Mind, Tetragrammaton, and Benediction, I know I can do that even better as a SCH, with 9 stacks of Aetherflow, Virus, Lustrate, Indomitability, Both Tactics, and Dissipation. But when it comes to AST, all I have is Essential Dignity, and perhaps an Arrow card if I was lucky... Lightspeed? Are you kidding me??

[RoseM]

2. AST's mana regen is also the worst among all 3 healers. Your resource would be drained to Raise 1 person during Ravana EX, it's impossible to raise multiple death as AST.

3. On the buff side, AST's cards help with burn phase, but don't have any impact on raid DPS over a long fight. Let's do a math:
3.1 The Strongest DPS buff AST can get is an Expanded Arrow/Balance. The chance of having this combo in 2 draws (1min) is 2/9. Assume we can Shuffle once every 1 min, then this chance increases to approximately 1/3.
3.2 The best situation is AST keeps getting this same Combo every 1min in an 8 mins fight, the chance of this happen is: (1/3)^8=0.015%. Even when you are so lucky, your contribution to the raid DPS is still 20% lower than Selene. Most of the time, AST's DPS boost is just negligible.
3.3 Conclusion is AST is definitely not a DPS booster. If you are brining AST to group and hope she could help your party meet the DPS check like SCH used to do, then it's not going to happen. In fact I found the Most useful card for AST was probably Bole, then Ewer.