Current Evaluation/Status of Astrologian and Ideas for Improvement

[Yhisa]

No, AST needs changes. It is not "fine."

It needs card buffs. SE needs to rid us of getting the same damn card you're trying to get rid of every time you Shuffle. It needs changes to Synastry (shorter cool down), Celestial Opposition (a bunch of changes needed - see above), Collective Unconscious (remove the inability to do anything) and Essential Dignity (shorter cool down as this is our ONLY emergency heal). It needs a range change to Aspected Helios.

The only aspect I feel is great now is the MP management of it. I never have any MP problems anymore.

First of all u making ast way way too op just by lowering there essential dignity ...secondly alll those skills u have listed I use them ALOT ... The shuffle is a risk or a reward .. Secondly aspected helios is fine.. Ever thought that it might of been u standing in the wrong place or that u attempted to heal whilst everyone was scattered

[NorthernLadMSP]

LOL you're completely fooling yourself if you think AST is perfectly fine and that you're the only person who knows how to play the job.

[WingsOfAzrael]

First of all u making ast way way too op just by lowering there essential dignity ...secondly alll those skills u have listed I use them ALOT ... The shuffle is a risk or a reward .. Secondly aspected helios is fine.. Ever thought that it might of been u standing in the wrong place or that u attempted to heal whilst everyone was scattered

that wouldn't be op, that is the ONLY oh shit button asts have besides lightspeed

[Yhisa]

This annoys me alot where people screaming about buffs that we are weak.. When we are not weak we just lack 1 cooldown to increase our healing.. I run with war DRG mnk so I rotate there mantra as my healing cooldown ... With cards spear is the only card that needs a fix and the range of our expand... The other skills are fine.. The stun + extend buffs is nice.... The bubble is nice for phase swaps or lazy healing (hot stacking) lol @ healing when ravana does his sword dance... The thing is players are not using there toolkit correctly.... My fc loves me as AST and do not want me to change all I'm doing is waiting for our scholar to gear up abit to do Alex savage

[Yhisa]

that wouldn't be op, that is the ONLY oh shit button asts have besides lightspeed

Light speed is not a healing cooldown... It's a skill to heal on the move u can get 4 heals within its buff duration 6 if u extend ur light speed buff... Thing is with essential dignity is that if u do not crit its the same a lustrate.. If it crits is healls like benediction this skill is very strong and does not need to be reduce futher

[Yhisa]

Like I said AST requires a brain to play... With light speed u can run around and use helios, stoneskin , ressurect a fallen player, or use for MP reduce of ur spells... Other then these light speed do not give u any benefit to ur heals... All it does is allow u to be mobile and that is alll...

[Vlady]

LOL you're completely fooling yourself if you think AST is perfectly fine and that you're the only person who knows how to play the job.

Not the only person. There are more people who know the astro is fine then care to put up with this drama filled forum just to try to counter the 5+ new threads a day trashing a job that is not trash. Astro is powerful if you know how to properly use your cards as I said in the past. If I can increase a machinist dps by 120 through an entire right not even counting my personal dps people seem to not care about trying to find the average means the cards give in power to our group mates.

Only thing I can agree with is white mage is more popular because both astro and white mages are nearly healing par for par until crap hits the fan and the sustain healing strength of the white mage is what brings it on top of the astrologian in cutting edge progression. People care more about survival then individual buff strength in raids for the most part.

If they allowed a third healer in raids then the astrologian would be utilized as much as the white mage. That is the real reason no one is talking about. It is a paradigm of one job will have to sit out because of how the raids are formed around two healers.

[NorthernLadMSP]

This annoys me alot where people screaming about buffs that we are weak..

Like I said AST requires a brain to play...

What annoys me is people like you who feel the need to use condescending remarks to try and make their point, because they really have no other way of trying to prove their said point.

Why don't you take your own advice and learn how to formulate a post in proper English before telling people they need a brain to play this job.

[Ahlah]

Yhisa and Vlady - do you guys play any other healer job? Try doing content with the same party composition using AST then switch to either SCH or WHM. Record the fights and watch them again, see if you still believe AST is on the same page as SCH/WHM.

[NorthernLadMSP]

There are more people who know the astro is fine then care to put up with this drama filled forum just to try to counter the 5+ new threads a day trashing a job that is not trash.

Actually there are not. There are approximately 5-6 people (yourself included) that feel AST is fine and in great shape. There are countless people both here (both in the NA and JA sections of the forum), in game and even on Reddit who know it's not fine, hence why there are countless threads about it's shortcomings. Hell, we even have other DPS and tanks who play in parties alongside AST that know they need to be balanced by SE.