Healing 'big' pulls on Astro

[Heinel]

The shield ironically fails at buying time because it's applied before you can begin to do anything else for the next ~2.5 seconds, sans essential dignity. I forgot who said it first, but it is a valid point.

This makes no sense. If the shield isn't expended, it simply means there wasn't enough damage to break it. It has nothing to do with whether or not a person is "under protection". The lower potency is a valid point, the cast time, not at all. This would be different if the galvanize effect also increases defense, but it does not. It is only an hp fodder.

[fanservice]

This makes no sense.

Let me clear it up for you.

-When a SCH finishes an adlo cast, they can immediately begin to cast their physic spell, which will land ~2.5 seconds after the shield is applied.

-When an AST casts aspected benefic, they need to wait ~2.5 seconds for the GCD before beginning to cast their next spell, which in most cases (benefic, benefic 2) will take another ~2 seconds to cast. Those heals will land ~4.5 seconds after the shield is applied.

Take from that what you will, but potency aside, one cannot use nocturnal aspected benefic the same way you would adloquium.

[Krixus]

Let me clear it up for you.

-When a SCH finishes an adlo cast, they can immediately begin to cast their physic spell, which will land ~2.5 seconds after the shield is applied.

-When an AST casts aspected benefic, they need to wait ~2.5 seconds for the GCD before beginning to cast their next spell, which in most cases (benefic, benefic 2) will take another ~2 seconds to cast. Those heals will land ~4.5 seconds after the shield is applied.

Take from that what you will, but potency aside, one cannot use nocturnal aspected benefic the same way you would adloquium.

You are correct.

However, front side loaded is much better than back side. You can use abilities off the GCD immediately following aspected benefic. Like jumping into cleric stance, putting on disable, drawing/using/shuffling/RRing a card, time dialation, lightspeed (lol), swiftcast, etc. Also being frontside loaded leaves less room for mistake, if you realize late that a big hitter is coming, ast is going to catch the tank with the shield where the sch will not.