Astro in savage

[RudyEstheim]

Saw these videos on youtube of this AST Yoshiyuki Ly for those that wanna see.

Floor 1 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkTySAHDI4

Floor 2 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfPcG43yrA

[justinjarjar]

Saw these videos on youtube of this AST Yoshiyuki Ly for those that wanna see.

Floor 1 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkTySAHDI4

Floor 2 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfPcG43yrA

PS4 gameplay/bars confuse me XD, but thanks for the links .

[Darkseth]

Saw these videos on youtube of this AST Yoshiyuki Ly for those that wanna see.

Floor 1 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkTySAHDI4

Floor 2 Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfPcG43yrA

Impressive. This gave me much hope for AST, because i like the animations and the Esoteric set. Even more considering the following:
i tried AST (my partner is a sch, so i'm main WHM) today in A1s.
I was hoping, people here in xx Threads would just exaggerate with how bad AST really is...
Honestly, AST is just SO bad and pretty much Useless in any serious raid scenario. Sure, it IS possible as shown in above videos. Sure, its "fine" on lower content below Alex savage. But double Warrior in 2.0 was also possible. Remember that Double warrior T5 clear? Just because it was possible, doesnt mean it's fine. PLD was way better. Just like whm or sch are way better healer than ast now.
But the difference between whm/sch, and any AST combo is so huge...
we had hard problems with Faust, took us like 30 minutes to bring it down. I had non stop zero Mana (and here i was hoping, people would exaggerate too.. Because potency are ONLY 5% lower, but Spell cost 20% less MP) during the end. The heal output is bad, and the buffs were almost worthless. I was even lucky with buffs, and draw like 2-3 attack speed for our Monk, one of them an extendet one + time dilation + CO, which got his dps up by like 50-100 in total? difficult to say... He was just slightly above the drg. My own DPS were stuck at 130, because i just HAD to heal so much.
On Opressor it was also very noticable. My sch partner had to AOE much more, had more MP problems, could dps less. Buffs again... Mostly useless junk. Way too weak to be noticed by any means, unlike the missing healing.
Went out before time up, i changed to war, we oneshotet Faust. I had 280 dps, and had an super easy time healing, without MP problems (endet the fight with 2500-3000 MP ). I probably could have re-newed my dots 1-2 more times.
And during Boss it was similar. Keeping everyone alive was noticable easier and better, than with ast. Despite so little differences in AOE heals. (maybe it was the Mind difference, that gets higher, the higher our Item level goes, since its a flat 3% bonus).
Not to mention, going ast just puts a higher stress on your co-healer, making him less efficient, and maybe even lowering raid dps at all.

Honestly i see 3 ways to fix this job, without a complete rework:
- Bring Healing up to whm/sch level, including potencies. Healing output needs a good buff here
- Cards need to get a HUGE buff. At least 10% -> 40%. The Healing deficite is SO enourmous in my opinion (my whole group noticed it, not just me, and not just my scholar partner), that buffs need to make up for that loss. 10% is just way too low.
- A combination of both.

Since #1 would make it into a whm/sch clone with a different weapon, i guess #2 would be the first pick.

Again: Just looking at potencies, i cant understand why it makes such a big difference. But it does... ;/ i guess, all the small things just add up.

But lets see the positive: SE "has" to do a major Buff (at a similar level as 2.0 warrior) at some point, so we can look forward in a better AST.