Astrologian "BUFFS"

[TonberiScholar]

Lightspeed as an "emergency healing tool" is mainly for allowing you to cast Benefic II/Aspected Helios at less cost. The being instant-cast/faster-cast is less for "emergency" and more for movement.

The Ewer change combined with the Lightspeed cost reduction should help sustainability issues, but AST still has a bit of a throughput issue. Lightspeed helps in letting you use your bigger heals more often (and being more reliable of a cost reduction than the old Ewer), but I'm not quite sure if it's going to be enough yet.

[Taranok]

Lightspeed as an "emergency healing tool" is mainly for allowing you to cast Benefic II/Aspected Helios at less cost. The being instant-cast/faster-cast is less for "emergency" and more for movement.

The Ewer change combined with the Lightspeed cost reduction should help sustainability issues, but AST still has a bit of a throughput issue. Lightspeed helps in letting you use your bigger heals more often (and being more reliable of a cost reduction than the old Ewer), but I'm not quite sure if it's going to be enough yet.

I agree. Though I'd say that if you need to move and heal, Lightspeed is undoubtedly the best ability in the game for it now, no question. It will come in handy for swift liberation, as an example. But the class still doesn't have an actual catchup tool. It can be more wasteful with benefic IIs, but that won't save it from a WHM that has a stronger regen, better actual healing throughput, divine seal, presence of mind, assize, and everything else that makes them a substantially better healer by raw throughput.

Even the Scholar has more throughput because the Fairy is just ridiculous for that, even though their AoE healing is arguably worse (or better depending on what you are after).

Until the AST gets its throughput fixed, it will always be a bad healer by comparison to the WHM/Scholar.