Astrologian "BUFFS"

[UlricCraft]

Okay, maybe I didn't explain myself as well as I thought.

Cure is 400 potency, with Noct Sect it raises that by 5%.

I was merely joking at the fact there are ways to get more % healing out of AST to lighten the ever depressing threads complaining about Square Enix.

[Parawill]

Okay, maybe I didn't explain myself as well as I thought.

Cure is 400 potency, with Noct Sect it raises that by 5%.

I was merely joking at the fact there are ways to get more % healing out of AST to lighten the ever depressing threads complaining about Square Enix.

It's okay. I laughed so hard for not thinking about this xD My FC followed suit too! I do love my Surecast, but I think I'll test out Cure to see how that goes. This reminds me of the days where I used Physick on my White Mage for a few not-so-difficult dungeons because I liked how Physick's icon looked. \o/

[HeavensSword]

Okay, maybe I didn't explain myself as well as I thought.

Cure is 400 potency, with Noct Sect it raises that by 5%.

I was merely joking at the fact there are ways to get more % healing out of AST to lighten the ever depressing threads complaining about Square Enix.

Don't worry Ulric, keep being awesome.

[Muahbec]

They solved our mp problems. That's all.
no change on CO at all.
CU change is shit.
no change on how much we heal at all.
no healing buff at all.
no raid utility at all, just a bunch of helios/aspected helios spam.

SE, please, close the servers, take a look at the forum and take some of your players ideas, rework, remake, destroy and rebuild AST.
open the servers again.

[Roxas_Andrade]

I still have to play with these new features, but I don't think the buffs were that bad.

Sure we didn't have any changes on Celestial Opposition, as announced, but all people complaining about 'AST has to be in pair with WHM/SCH' don't consider that the card system is unique.
Whm doesn't have a mitigation skill (I'm considering SS as a shield, and it's cross class anyway). They don't have a support skill on their own to use on other players, they haven't how to directly improve dps.
SCH has Virus, which is better than Disable, but can't be used by anyone in a long time (if you have 4 members in a group capable of using Virus, 2 or 3 of them won't even use it while Disable can be used on CoolDown by any AST). Sch has better options on support with E4aE/Deploy and Fey Wind, bus AST has a defensive buff that doesn't depend on RNG to activate (only to draw) and has a haste skill that's better, although you depend on RNG for drawing and spreading it too.

Also any WHM/SCH has a tool to refresh mp/tp to self but not to other players. As long as AST use their buffs on cooldown, their contribution to mitigation, dps, makes things faster and still heal decently makes them unique.

[Lastelli]

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But cards depend too much on RNG. We don't really need statisticians or complicated reasoning about expected utility to see that having random buffs with similar utility to skills that schs have with certainty is just not enough. Consider an expanded arrow for instance, which is one of the best things that can happen to an ast. That's a 5% haste to the party for 15 seconds, but you need 2 cards for that so you will be able to have an expanded arrow once in a minute if you are extremely lucky. Then consider Fey Wind: it's a 3% haste to the party with certainty every minute for 30 seconds. It's stronger than and expanded arrow even if an ast keeps drawing the perfect combination of cards for all the duration of the encounter and it doesn't even depend on RNG. Sure, you can use CO and time dilation to gain a few seconds...but do we really need that much work, luck and different skills to be on par with selene in boosting the party's dps?

[Roxas_Andrade]

but do we really need that much work, luck and different skills to be on par with selene in boosting the party's dps?

But my point is: you can have this perfect RR/arrow draw once in the battle and it will be wonderful, but if you draw bole, you sure have a good use to it. If you draw balance, you have a good use to this, if you draw ewer, you have good use to this...
You can use every single buff you get in any situation. And despite some buffs are copy from other jobs, other buffs are unique and and all of them are useful. Healing power is essential for a healer, but AST can help in some things that other healers can't...

[Emonik]

Okay, maybe I didn't explain myself as well as I thought.

Cure is 400 potency, with Noct Sect it raises that by 5%.

I was merely joking at the fact there are ways to get more % healing out of AST to lighten the ever depressing threads complaining about Square Enix.

Joking is right! Cure in NoctSect = 0.95pot/mana Benefic I in NoctSect = 1.1pot/mana

[GideonHighmourn]

Joking is right! Cure in NoctSect = 0.95pot/mana Benefic I in NoctSect = 1.1pot/mana

It also doesn't proc Enhanced Benefic II; not that it does much anyways.

[Phenidate]

Okay, maybe I didn't explain myself as well as I thought.

Cure is 400 potency, with Noct Sect it raises that by 5%.

I was merely joking at the fact there are ways to get more % healing out of AST to lighten the ever depressing threads complaining about Square Enix.

Alright, sacrifice my regen effects that stack with WHM regens and have better effective heal throughput thanks to extendable duration by other abilities, but hey, I can cast cure 5% better than a WHM! It'll be great as long as there isn't a SCH in the party, right? Right?