Following Nasrin: I'm done with AST too

[Arragomis]

I see you play astro at 60. and do not understand to play it. Might I suggest playing a different healing class? Maybe one that takes slightly less intelligence to play well? You use the cards you are given, yes they are random, a good astro knows how to put cards to use or knows when to hold them, or RR them. A good astro knows when its appropriate to Benefic1, or II just as a good whm knwos when to use 1 or 2 cure. However astro is a little more complex as you have to understand how every job not just your own works. YOu have to understand each dps and the cooldowns and what they do, you have to understand and prepare for raid damage, know the fight, know the mechanics and what comes when it does to prepare for it. More so than say whm or sch. You have less room for error and therefore it is not for everyone. GOod astro are amazing healers, bad astro are usually pretty bad too.

[Vihalo]

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Problem is: You can be the best player in the world, when you just draw ewers and spires and your group just doesn't have the need of it, well tough luck.
In Progress you do not want to count on RNG in a difficult fight. There is a reason why there where no Astrologian present at the world first kills of alexander savage 1,2 & 3.

[Vlady]

Problem is: You can be the best player in the world, when you just draw ewers and spires and your group just doesn't have the need of it, well tough luck.
In Progress you do not want to count on RNG in a difficult fight. There is a reason why there where no Astrologian present at the world first kills of alexander savage 1,2 & 3.

Because they prefer the tried and true method of what worked in previous raids of the white/scholar combo and didn't want to put up with uncertainty of the astrologian over a more familiar setup to help guarantee a world first. That far from invalidates the astrologian from being able to compete in all level of raid healing.

[Neophyte]

I see you play astro at 60. and do not understand to play it. Might I suggest playing a different healing class? Maybe one that takes slightly less intelligence to play well? You use the cards you are given, yes they are random, a good astro knows how to put cards to use or knows when to hold them, or RR them. A good astro knows when its appropriate to Benefic1, or II just as a good whm knwos when to use 1 or 2 cure. However astro is a little more complex as you have to understand how every job not just your own works. YOu have to understand each dps and the cooldowns and what they do,you have to understand and prepare for raid damage, know the fight, know the mechanics and what comes when it does to prepare for it. More so than say whm or sch. You have less room for error and therefore it is not for everyone. GOod astro are amazing healers, bad astro are usually pretty bad too.

It's mathproofed, that AST can't keep up in meaning of buffs and healing with SCH. AST has about healing capacity like a SCH without Aetherflow-Stacks and buffs less (coz of RNG) than the fairy.

He's not bad for his own, but he's worse in every aspect (heal/shield output, dps buff, mana management) compared to SCH e.g.

You can't argue with that. If you want to, then name me common situations where good AST performs better than any other good healer.

[Bovinity]

GOod astro are amazing healers, bad astro are usually pretty bad too.

The problem here is that even if you're right, it's irrelevant. No one is talking about whether or not the class is hard or easy to play. The discussion revolves entirely around what they bring to the table and how well they can perform.

Statements about player skill are meaningless because you're never including that in the equation when figuring the numbers on this stuff.

It's like hearing people discussing which car is faster, and you pop in with, "But a good driver could win a race with the slower car!!" which may or may not be true, but it's not what anyone is talking about.