Done with AST

[Rahaya]

If the AST doesn't have a clear strength, there's no need to bring it.

SCH + AST is the top party buffing combination for DPS. A2 clear with AST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfPcG43yrA for example. If your party composition is not optimal for Selene (*cough* SMN *cough*) and it runs up your TP bill, or you'd much rather time DPS buffs for burst phases rather than a passive haste, AST works better. It's the only healer that can grant TP/MP. Synastry is amazeballs. Single target AST DPS isn't too shabby. Perhaps the WHM isn't god tier and can't shoulder all of the healing burden. AST would be contributing DPS anyway, where my SCH would be babysitting.

How about, it's fun?

AST is not perfect right now, but a lot of the complaints about it that I've seen are a bit off base.

I don't think it needs to bring something OVER either of the other two - different and comparable would be fine, but at the moment we lack noticeable comparability unique or otherwise. I'd like to see another emergency heal for one thing.

You should see a large number of the proposed buffing threads =P Celestial Opposition is pretty terrible for the CD, I honestly think that should have a healing component attached and not the stun, with a slight CD reduction to 120 sec. The biggest problem with Nocturnal Sect, in my opinion, is that it copies all the skills SCH doesn't use right now. Why on earth would I Succor? That shield gets cannibalized into an heal. I can't Shadowflare and Sacred Soil, if this was FCOB then Collective Nocturnal would make sense, but it isn't. There's nothing to Sacred Soil in Alexander right now. About the only thing that sees some use is Adlo, which just makes me go =/ all the times it doesn't crit and gets knocked off by the first attack and Nocturnal doesn't even shield for that base amount. (costs less mana tho. Yay?)