Astro in savage

[zuzu-bq]

I was playing AST before savage launch. He was really fun and ok to good on any content before savage. But his strength falls a lot when we were doing harder content. I was the SCH and I had my partner playing WHM. Our first atempt at Alex Savage went well, we got Faust quickly and we were adjusting to Oppressor. We had to leave duty because of some member rl thing.

After that, we rejoined. Our WHM went as AST. No changes on Faust honestly but when we got to oppressor we were having trouble to adjust heals in some parts that we already had adjusted on SCH+WHM duo, and since AST's healing kit is so simmilar to WHM, maybe this reveals that AST is really lacking on something. Total party damage per second didn't change much, but I can't say if that was AST or our DPSs are still adjusting themselves to the fight. I know I'm still adjusting my stance dance and mana management.

I think AST's main problem are Aspected Helios wich Burst is a lot lower than WHM's Medica II and the lack of the Mind Attribute Bonus. I wanna try the WHM+AST duo later (with both Di and Noct). I never liked Aspected Helios since I started leveling AST, and I don't think Nocturnal Stance is bad like most people think. I wanna give it a shot later. Back on 2.x SCH was the support healer, while he still is a semi-supportive healer we got a lot of new heals out of our scholar hats but maybe SCH+AST is not as good because both are supportive kinda of healers? I don't know, I hope not beacuse I love the idea off keeping the party buffed for almost 100% of the time. We may end going up for SCH+WHM duo for progression anyways. I noticed Virus cd doesn't sync well with some AoE magical raid damage, I hope this doesn't become an issue without Disable or other Super Virus user (Summoner).

tl;dr
I think AST can do it. But he'll maybe need a bit more effort and/or gear than the others. To be honest, most and maybe all healer formations may be viable as people get more geared. Who knows!

[KarstenS]

the lack of the Mind Attribute Bonus.

Yesterday I watches how much this bonus bring on the table. I was surprised. It was more than I expected.

This bonus do also affect cleric stance?

Are all bonuses this noticeable? We are missing the STR bonus becuase no DRG/MNK.