Your thoughts on Astrolgian so far?

[Lycinder]

Malefic - Won't miss if Combust is active on the target.
- The next Malefic II will not miss the initial target, and has a small AoE effect. Oh hey that would make me put Malefic back on my hotbar, good idea

Malefic II - Restores 50% mp cost if the initial target has Combust II on it. Less restore mp more just make it cost less (middle man removed) though I'm not sure on this idea to be honest

Lightspeed - Toggelable Stance. Does what it does now, additionaly reduces the GCD by 1 second. Spells remain their original strength but cost 50% more mp while in this stance. I prefer lightspeed as a cooldown and would instead want it to remove GCD and have a shorter length to make up for it

Royal Road - CD removed. What is the point of the cooldown anyway? Agreed.

Spread - Held Cards grant half of their bonus to the AST. Cannot draw, when a Card is held. Royal Road consumes the held card if used. NO!

Disable - 30 second Cooldown, restores the reduced damage as MP to the caster (if multiple targets are hit, only from the target that received the highest damage. Disable is fine and effective as it is

Shuffle - CD renoved - MP cost added 10% max MP The cooldown makes sense since removing the RNG state will just make the whole draw mechanic pointless, and I would not want to be burning mana on the card mechanics thanking you.

Noctunal Sect - 5% healing bonus removed, instead increases potency of shields by 25%. Diurnal/Nocturnal Sect can be switched mid combat, cost 10% max MP when in combat. 5% Healing bonus is fine as is, being able to switch stance at a cost of a chunk of mana though is in fact A VERY GOOD IDEA

Synastry - Toggelable "Stance", does what it does at, increases MP cost of single-target healing spells by 25%. A mini-fairy so to speak. Mana burn is a big problem for astrologians already, synastry as a cooldown is fine as is.

Gravity - MP cost doubled, damage reduced to 100 potency, additionally deals 20% of remaining MP as damage.
... kinda simulates the gradually weakening effect of the traditional gravity Spells. Lets take our only AoE damage skill make it weaker make it cost double mana and basically make it so an Astrologian who wants to not be made useless will only use it once if at all \o/ yeah no, terrible idea.

Time dilation - Its kinda ... boring I quite enjoy Time Dilation, it would be nice if I can cast it on myself though

Collective Unconscious - Cast time 1 second, CD reduced to 5 seconds. Deals 100 "heal" potency damage to enemies standing inside. Recovers 0,5% mana per tick, heals party members for 100 potency.
Diurnal: Potency increased to 150.
Nocturnal: 10% damage resistance removed, as long as allies stand inside the Shield from Nocturnal sect are doubled.
Cannot be stacked with another AST. Moving or Casting cancels the effect. I am pretty sure in nocturnal with the big aoe hits (which is what its made for) a percent damage reduce is going to always be stronger then doubling our weak shields which we would need to place beforehand...Actually this looks like a big nerf to an already pretty weak skill...Why?

Celestial Opposition - 150 sec cooldown, instant AoE heal at 400 potency, for every % of max mp missing, this spell is 1% stronger and has a 1% lower cooldown up to a max of 50%. Not quite sure about this, celestial stasis is meant to have an effect like stopping time for 5 seconds which is why mobs are stunned for 5 seconds and beneficial effects are increased by 5 seconds, also making it only effective if we have burned our mana might not be a good message to Astrologians.
Edit: after thinking it through I have decided that this is indeed a bad idea.

Well thats kinda it, makes some spells more interesting to use, gives generally more to do without the CD managment (which we dont have yet), that both other healers have, instead focuses on mp managment(which we kinda have).

I kind of see what you are getting at and some ideas you have are pretty good but quite a few are terrible (See bolded notes) a lot of those work against MP management and will effectively kill our mana earlier rather then make it last longer.
To be honest there is too many big changes to that when Astrologian only needs a tweak to our current toolset rather than a massive overhaul.

[Triaste]

I kind of see what you are getting at and some ideas you have are pretty good but quite a few are terrible (See bolded notes) a lot of those work against MP management and will effectively kill our mana earlier rather then make it last longer.
To be honest there is too many big changes to that when Astrologian only needs a tweak to our current toolset rather than a massive overhaul.

Well the nubers as per se are just that numbers nothing set in stone. Its more mechanics that I was after, and to make it different from the other healers. As it stands, we have lower damage than SCH, lower healing than WHM, and more mana Issues than both.

Its not even that healing would change much with those changes - pure healing would most likely be unaffected. Lightspeed/Synastry, would be the equivalent of the WHM/SCH cooldowns, enabling us to cast a lot faster, although with unsustainable cost - but you are not supposed to use it for more than some casts anyway.
Sure if those cooldowns would be used we would be harder on the mana. Thats why at least a spell has to have some regeneration on it, and a channeling spell like Collective Unconscios would fill that role, cast whenever possible - basically positioning would be rewarded (An the spell actually used) - also the mechanic on disable is for that encourages its use too.
And to be honest 10% isnt that much, its 1k on a 10k hit, shields would cover that at least, for everything weaker its a + , for everything higher we have disable.

Celestial Opposition ist quite bad, interfering with stun resist timers, or the stun portion just not working on enemies. Can also be understood as opposing fate (as written in the stars) by keeping everyone from certain death instead of stopping/prolonging time.

And yup, thats more an overhaul, we prolly will get some numbers fixed (as with all the other classes - and it will do what its supposed to.) But one can think about alternatives anyway, if only for fun

[Lycinder]

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The idea of having synastry and lightspeed as toggleables just isn't going to work I am strongly in support of Synastry as it is and Lightspeed to rather be actually useful (some edit to GCD) than being something which drains mana MORE.
I use celestial opposition for mana management with its effect increase, I'd rather it keep that and maybe have some kind of "celestial attuning" effect after the 5 seconds which gives us some mana.
A percentage mitigation for collective consciousness is going to be much better for Astro come Alexander because we are going to be expecting BIG hits I mean if scholar had that effect for their Sacred soil for T11's crit nerve gas before echo and overgearing people would die no matter what, aspected helios is a weaker shield than you think I would rather it not be our aoe mitigation to rely on even if doubled.
On that note I think the mana regen channel effect of Collective unconsciousness might be nice.

You agree that we have mana issues, why are you suggesting things which will kill our mana more?