A1 Savage Astrologian PoV

[Kelya]

The thing about A1s is its not as aoe intensive as people make it out to be. THere are aoes yes. But you dont spam aoe heals, you Hot and wait ands pot heal as needed. The fairy alone has the ability to top off after HOT rolling its not as heal intensive as people complain... They are great heals in capable hands.. but TERRIBLE heals in the hand of players who are used to spamming medica. I will say it again. Astro are a spot heal/focus heal healer.

I will always agree any job is great when in capable hands, so is the AST. However, the point is not about are they capable to do X or Y things for Z content, the question is how much efforts and ressources (MP, GCD, CD, cards) they need to use in order to be capable of that. And for now they need to work so much more than any of the 2 others healers just to have the same result. I don't see how it is fair, even if it comes down to "it's the AST gameplay, it's a support healer/a spot healer".

Another thing I want to ask you is you said fights like A1s are not aoe intensive so you don't need that much AOE. Well and what will happen if the next fights are ? What if A1s was very intensive in the contrary ? Would you still count on the SCH fairy, would you still top individually ppl ?

Anyway, for me the biggest issue of AST is the range of spells, it's worse than any of his supposed issues for the moment in my opinion. No healing AOE more than 15y, you are NEVER going to hit everyone in fight were ppl are spread. Celestial opposition seriously, it's supposed to be an AOE support spell, why is the range so short then ? And the range of cards I don't even want to talk about it... In A1s for example if you're lucky, you still won't hit the 2 tanks. Okay they are not dps and what ? the cards are supposed to be the main chore of the job and we can't even use it on everyone, that's really sad when you have a good combo and you try your best to position yourself but whatever you'll do it will always be lost in some way. It's always lost already because it's RRed so it's hurting a lot!

[TatoRazzino]

Anyway, for me the biggest issue of AST is the range of spells, it's worse than any of his supposed issues

This is true. Medica II has a 20y range, while Aspected Benefic has only 15y (just like Succor and, if I'm not mistaken, Indomitability). It seems they want to give the upper hand in AoE healing to WHM, since they have the most skills in that area (Cure III, Medica, Medica II, Assize, Asylum) while AST and SCH have less (Helios, Aspected Helios and Collective Unconscious x Succor, Indomitability and Whispering Dawn). SCH is also less effective in this field, since one of them depends on Emergency Tactics (which puts it on cooldown, and they lose the possibility for 30s of using it to make Adlo a big heal), the other on an Aetherflow stack (which consumes one Lustrate that could be used in that minute) and the last one on using Eos (which makes them give up the Haste buff). Maybe they could increase the range of Aspected Helios while under Diurnal.