The positive Astrologian thread!

[Aurum]

The problem, though, is that people aren't missing that utility. All the bases are already covered by other classes more capable of covering them. And from what you've said about how AST works with another healer tells me that our place in a raid is to make things harder on our co-healer. When paired with a scholar, what we bring to the table shouldn't be "more fairy micro and less dps for you, Mr. scholar". and when with a WHM it shouldn't be "You get to DPS less, Mr. WHM". Both of these situations seem directly detrimental to the party, and is indicative of the fact that AST is currently just a second string pinch hitter in an otherwise all-star lineup.

[TatoRazzino]

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You sound like you never did progression raiding before, dude. You're all stuck in a 2.x meta and you can't shake it off. There were several situations tonight in which having Synastry, Time Dilation, Lightspeed, Disable, insta-cast shields and even Collective Unconscious would have made healing a lot EASIER. Having an AST in the party adds utility and some nice healing tools which WHM/SCH don't have. Things are going to be hard no matter which healing duo you get in there. People are using WHM/SCH because everyone is used to that, since they've been used since 2013. Hardcore progression groups don't want to waste time learning anything other than the fight, and that's why lots of them are sticking to the old jobs or to jobs that have easy learning curves. Healing is more complex than DPSing, since there's no rotation to follow and no dummy to train on.