Essential Dignity

[Eraqus]

Theo not thing that I hate about this skill it's the cooldown. 40 seconds it's too much for that -_-

[Rajeme]

Theo not thing that I hate about this skill it's the cooldown. 40 seconds it's too much for that -_-

For something pretty much the "finisher" for AST, I think it's pretty appropriate and even shorter than some other skills from other classes. Shorten it will make it broken.

[Eraqus]

For something pretty much the "finisher" for AST, I think it's pretty appropriate and even shorter than some other skills from other classes. Shorten it will make it broken.

And it comes the expert who says that other ppl r wrong.

R u serious? A 40 second cooldown for a 4 or 5k heal? Do not count critical please. That's luck.

And hmm other class skills? Wt about lustrate....

[Rajeme]

And it comes the expert who says that other ppl r wrong.

R u serious? A 40 second cooldown for a 4 or 5k heal? Do not count critical please. That's luck.

And hmm other class skills? Wt about lustrate....

Yeah, this expert will just say that potency scales up to almost 1000...At 1HP, my healing is about 5.5-6k at Ilv 163 without crit.

Here is the link if you don't believe this expert

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ential_dignity

The rest is like Ninimo said.

This expert is really sorry for always say people are wrong, every single time, no exception.

[Krixus]

Theo not thing that I hate about this skill it's the cooldown. 40 seconds it's too much for that -_-

Lol does everyone have to tell you again this is one of astro's few good skills? Its an awesome ability for such a short CD.

[Eraqus]

Lol does everyone have to tell you again this is one of astro's few good skills? Its an awesome ability for such a short CD.

OH really? And please can u tell me who are u to say that it's like that? This skill AS AN EMERGENCY HEAL as it is now sucks . If it was not the only emergency heal it would be cool. But ryt now as the ONLY ONE it sucks.

[Krixus]

OH really? And please can u tell me who are u to say that it's like that? This skill AS AN EMERGENCY HEAL as it is now sucks . If it was not the only emergency heal it would be cool. But ryt now as the ONLY ONE it sucks.

Nvm, go play a dps please.

[Troile]

Personally I don't have issue with essential dignity. I don't think changing this skill alone will fix the root of the complaint....that being some (I won't speak for all) AST's feel inferior when it comes to emergency healing bad situations.

Speaking from the experiences I've had with SCH, AST at the same level is missing that safety net feeling. For example, as a SCH I could have 3 unused Aetherflow stacks, and the Aetherflow skill ready to roll meaning I could use Lustrate 6 times back to back if needed (this is on top of the faerie's own healing skills and your other heal/shield options). Whereas with an AST I've casted Benefic II, Aspected Benefic (regen), Aspected Helios (Regen), and now Essential Dignity only to watch the tank's HP bar continue to hover near death as I spam Benefic II until either regen wears off or Essential Dignity is off cooldown (all the while trying to fish for a Bole in between GCD's).

I won't even mention the new ability added in Heavensward to refresh Aetherflow stacks. We can argue that a SCH will not always have this situation, but the fact is a SCH can easily create this situation if he/she wanted. I cannot speak for WHM, but at least with SCH vs AST the ability to handle, either prepared or unprepared, emergency situations is vastly different. It's not enough to just do the math and say it boils down to 1 lustrate every 20 seconds. While it may be mathematically accurate, it doesn't quite get the feel across since it's more like 6 lustrates in 17.5 seconds, then another 3 in 50 seconds. Please don't take this to mean i'm saying "SCH" should be nerfed, i'm perfectly fine with how SCH plays, and I don't want to do the same things as a SCH....if I did, I would just play a Scholar. I'm just highlighting a single aspect of how the class can be played.

That being said, I would be perfectly fine with AST being less equipped to handle those situations if they had something else that made them unique and useful. The real problem is, as I see it, that AST excels at nothing at all, unless you count having the best skill/spell animations. The overall feeling is just that of being passable, yet inferior, at performing every task.

My apologies for any difficulty in reading this, my purpose was speed rather than ease of reading. At any rate, SE should be aware of all the gripes by now. Either they tweak AST or the company deals with fewer people wanting to play the class and whatever other consequences may come with that.

Also my apologies to the OP since your post had nothing at all to do with anything but the skill animation. It just somehow turned into this.....so to answer your actual question, i'm actually not bothered by the animation or the similarity to lustrate animation-wise. I think all of AST's animations are awesome.