Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Shamirah]

tbh, they should get rid of those party buff and just make it baseline. or something like when you're in a light party you gain X or X% on your stats, and when you're in a full party, you gain 2*X or 2*X% on your stats.

[Scyris]

As a tank I dispise Asts, their heals barely are enough and most cant even keep me above 75% even when I use my dmg reduction cooldowns. They heal for less than scholars (from what I have seen) but lack the heal fairy to help them. I'd easly pick whm or sch over an ast anyday.

[Donarudo]

As a tank I dispise Asts.

You must have just had bad luck. I speed run every run I do as a an AST no issues keeping the group up. Despise me if you want, but I will guarantee I'll keep your butt alive in a dungeon. Write my name down...if we ever cross paths I'll will gladly prove you wrong. Chances are we will never meet.

[Krixus]

As a tank I dispise Asts, their heals barely are enough and most cant even keep me above 75% even when I use my dmg reduction cooldowns. They heal for less than scholars (from what I have seen) but lack the heal fairy to help them. I'd easly pick whm or sch over an ast anyday.

Little over a week the job has been introduced to the game. Give time to the slower ones to learn the job. Keep in mind just as many sch/whm's have been failing in new content also. Im also guessing you are one of those drk's who tries to dps instead of tank.

[Mhikail]

The AST i was running with to level my MNK had 0 issues with healing the vault. Could do big pulls and bosses easily whilst still having mana left over.

Newbie AST i ran with today in my expert in i145 did the pulls just fine aswell.

Not sure how he was a newbie when The Vault gives i142 gear.
I'm i136 and I was on my last leg, looking for LA constantly.
He was probably a 60 or something.
You need every single item probably from the Aery to suffer less.

People who say AST is fine are hilarious.
It's not over the top with problems but it does need tweaks.

[Houston009]

The Newbie AST and the one for the Vault were two different healers, sorry for not specifying.

For the Vault:
I was playing with my static healer (who was leveling beside me, a.k.a not 60) and we went into the dungeon at lv 57 with whatever gear we had. We were very unlucky with Aery drops.

For the expert:
Newbie to the dungeon itself. The Ilvl requirement for expert dungeons is i145 gear, which can be bought.

A tweak to AST would be nice. However, the current content we are given is fine for AST.

[Wobble]

I've noticed so far that AST seems to have a struggle with being solo healer. Maybe SE will buff the job at some point or it may fall to the wayside. I also find the cards confusing even though they have a small icon and color those some of them seem identical at first glance. I have yet to level it even though it was the one job I thought I might like.

[Mimilu]

I've only leveled AST to 41 so far, so you can take what I say with a grain of salt, but I feel like I have to spam Benefic and Benefic II way more then I had to spam Cure and Cure II with CNJ/WHM and Physick and Embrace with SCH while solo healing in dungeons at lower levels. I also feel like I have to use Essential Dignity way more then I had to use Benediction or Lustrate during those situations. It kind of feels like SE designed AST to be weaker then the other two and have to focus on healing, while WHM and SCH get to DPS

As for the card mechanic, it okay but could be better. I kind of wish that the ability to extend their effects to multiple party members wasn't part of Royal Road and that it just point-blank effected the whole party versus people nearby (the poor ARC/BRD/THM/BLM/ACN/SMN/MCH who like standing so far away can't get the effect).

[Iio]

I absolutely Love it to death.
Haven't had this much fun playing a healer class in forever and I already was having such a great time playing SCH.
Aspected Helios nominated for prettiest healing spell ever award.
Also the Buffing system is so much fun.

[DarkmoonVael]

As a tank I dispise Asts, their heals barely are enough and most cant even keep me above 75% even when I use my dmg reduction cooldowns. They heal for less than scholars (from what I have seen) but lack the heal fairy to help them. I'd easly pick whm or sch over an ast anyday.

I find its tanks who are too used to being carried by their healer that have issues with AST. Tanks that do their job by using cooldowns to mitigate damage are absolutely fine with AST. I find when i get a tank who can not press the buttons to reduce the damage they take are a huge issue, as are the ones who still think we can speed run all the new content undergeared and with party compositions that is far from optimal to kill mass pulls quickly. Flip side to every coin.