Astro in savage

[RichardButte]

also WHM and SCH have had a years worth of refinement behind them to get where they are now

Oh, okay. I thought we disagreed on AST needing buffs.

Carry on, then.

Trying to mispread information yourself? Thematically it is impossible for Astrologian to be so far behind white mage and scholar that they struggle since astro is only 20 potency behind white mage. That negates to barely 100 hps lost along with the strongest (on 40 second cooldown) instant cast heal int he game with upwards of 1k potency if you learn to time it properly along with light speed which i clocked an astro burst healing for about 2k single target I am not not sure you are just trying to make a mountain out of a ant hill.

Astro is not as simple as scholar or white mage. It takes thought and coordination to maximize your card use but to claim they are not in a good situation is worse then spreading misinformation. It is borderline lying. If astro could not handle Savage then we would have issues but we so far have too little data to back your claim but actual proof that astro's are healing savage mode. Wait and see instead of yelling the sky is falling please.

If you guys were at the gear level the content was designed for, you wouldn't need the healers' DPS.

Thing is, it's not really a question of whether healer DPS is NEEDED or not so much as whether or not healers will be capable of supplying it.

I DPS when:
-I have ample mana
-I don't need to be topping the group off
-I know that I can drop cleric stance and get some big heals out there quickly at the drop of a hat if need be (Lustrate...)

As groups get better geared, healers are only going to DPS more, and they're only going to end encounters even more quickly as a result.

In relating this to the condition of the AST (since some folks had mentioned it), it's silly to say that AST will somehow be better off at a higher gear level. I mean, I'm sure it will be, but so will the other healers, who will be healing these encounters with very little effort, probably spending over half of their time DPSing just to get rid of all of that useless mana cluttering up their MP bars.

Bottom line, if the AST isn't competitive with the other healers at 170, it's not going to be competitive at 200, either.