Why people says AST is bad?

[Crevox]

Fey Wind increases attack speed by 3% for 30 seconds and has 1 minute CD. And keep in mind, you said how ineffective 5% is, so why are you spouting NEED favoring spell that is so nerfed it's doing no one a huge favor?

Fey Wind got buffed. It used to increase skill speed and spell speed, and they were on seperate timers. The only time those were better than the new Fey Wind is if you actually had enough spell/skill speed so the multiplier was worth it.

There was only one job in 2.0 that stacked speed (Black Mage) so it is overall a win for everyone. That's also assuming the Black Mage in your party actually did stack Spell Speed, which currently, due to the minimal gear choices that exist, they have no control over that.

I say how great Fey Wind is because it's a DPS increase for the entire party; more so than Astrologian cards give, due to the consistency and reliability of it.

That CD is best for killing things faster or speeding up with much need healing. THe CD is so long, why is this even being compared to the other two???

Because it exists for when you need it. It's far better than Lightspeed, because Lightspeed doesn't touch your GCD, and cripples your healing. Presence of Mind affects GCD (which ultimately increases healing throughput and DPS) while also having no penalty. Yet, for some reason, Lightspeed has the same recast timer........

Like Cynfael already explained, passive speed increases on healing (spell speed, Diurnal Sect) are not useful. They are mediocre throughput increases with decreases in MP efficiency. Presence of Mind is good because you can turn it on when you do need the throughput, and it's a huge amount.

SCH, whom are not capable of providing any significant Damage increase, resource reduction, CD reduction.

Fey Wind gives more DPS than all of Astrologian's cards throughout the entire fight. It takes an Astrologian far too long to set up the buffs to increase damage due to RNG, Draw cooldown, Royal Road, etc. Scholar also does much more DPS single target and AoE, while costing a portion of the MP, while being able to heal in Cleric Stance (fairy). Scholar can also get huge value out of cleric stance by just snapshotting dots, turning it off, and going back to healing.

Not even going to comment on resource reduction and CD reduction because I already explained in huge detail as to why those cards are poor.

[RiisWolf]

Fey Wind got buffed. It used to increase skill speed and spell speed, and they were on seperate timers. The only time those were better than the new Fey Wind is if you actually had enough spell/skill speed so the multiplier was worth it.

Fey Wind used to be two parts that gives 30% skill speed or spell speed. Now it's both speeds at a tenth of what it used to do. It's a nerf.

[Crevox]

Fey Wind used to be two parts that gives 30% skill speed or spell speed. Now it's both speeds at a tenth of what it used to do. It's a nerf.

It didn't affect attack speed before, it affected the skill/spell speed stat in your character window, which was far worse. Attack speed is a straight up 3% reduction off of cast time, auto attack delay, and recast time. It's also important to mention that it didn't even affect auto attack delay before, which is a huge portion of any physical attacker's DPS.

The combined nature of it also allows you to better control the DPS gain in tense DPS phases of fights. Rather than only half the party benefiting every 30 seconds, the whole party does, so you can pop it during something like Bismarck's back and the whole party can reap the DPS benefits.

Why do I bother explaining :|

[RichardButte]

Why do I bother explaining :|

I have no idea, but someone has to TRY to be the voice of reason in the face of people just plain not understanding how the game actually works.