Astro in savage

[Alahra]

The fact remains that AST is a WHM clone without the powerful cooldowns or SCH clone without the fairy depending on your stance. It shouldn't have been that way and shouldn't continue that way. You can change potency but that won't help the class(20-30 potency in healing is nothing) and changing cooldowns still won't save NOCT stance unless they are drastically redone.

There are plenty of ways they could go about things without redesigning the class, though. Potency increases will in fact help to some degree (though they probably aren't necessary). If various cooldowns gained additional functionality based on Sect, they could shore up various gaps in the AST's toolkit (a common thought is for cards to have an additional effect based on stance). Collective Unconscious and Celestial Opposition (this is the main one that still needs something) need tweaks.

Nocturnal Sect should probably grant the Adloquium critical heal bonus for simplicity's sake (even if it's boring, they're likely to favor boring solutions at this stage and worry about reworks later, much as they did with SMN in HW).

Diurnal Sect *almost* works as well as WHM does, so it wouldn't take much to bring it up to par.

[Vlady]

I would opt for letting the astrologian stance dance in combat before upping their potency or adding crit bonus to noc shields.

[Alahra]

I would opt for letting the astrologian stance dance in combat before upping their potency or adding crit bonus to noc shields.

In the long run, how would stance dancing actually increase their overall healing performance?

[Yhisa]

In the long run, how would stance dancing actually increase their overall healing performance?

vlady just talks out of his ass and stuff everyone on the forums knows to just ignore him

[Galdous]

vlady just talks out of his ass and stuff everyone on the forums knows to just ignore him

You seem to enjoy talking an awful lot about someone you seem to dislike. Cute couple you two would make between nerfing white mages and scholar and being able to magically buff a dragoon's dps by 400.

[Minorinz]

Alright so I finally got to 60. Here's my suggestion SE:

1- Give draw a longer CD in exchange for us to be able to draw any card we wish to use. This should balance the RNG factor.
2- Celestial Opposition has a really long CD for simply one more tick of buffs? 5 secs has 1 tick in it so I don't why it's 5 tbh.. it should at least have 3 more ticks..
3- Collective Unconscious to have a wider range and a shorter CD. I get the concept of us being centered and with 0 mobility cause "unconscious" but it's very limited with sects right now and I don't see how it's any good compared to sacred soil or asylum. I think CU needs to have regen + 10% damage reduction at the same time and should be removed off sects.
4- Stella needs to be an aoe spell.
5- Lightspeed needs to buff healing spells' potency and it needs to have a shorter CD but not by much.

I don't think these are major buffs, but they are definitely good enough imo.

[SuzakuCMX]

Alright so I finally got to 60. Here's my suggestion SE:

1- Give draw a longer CD in exchange for us to be able to draw any card we wish to use. This should balance the RNG factor.

You mean by removing it?

Do you have any thoughts on how the UI for that could work? I haven't come up with anything short of a hotkey for every card, which seems... messy.

Steal the way LoL does it on Twisted Fate and just have it cycle through the buffs each second in a set order. When you reactivate Draw it locks the card in for 15s.

[Daralii]

Alright so I finally got to 60. Here's my suggestion SE:

1- Give draw a longer CD in exchange for us to be able to draw any card we wish to use. This should balance the RNG factor.

Do you have any thoughts on how the UI for that could work? I haven't come up with anything short of a hotkey for every card, which seems... messy.

[Minorinz]

Just shuffle until you get the card is another option. Shuffle can be on a gcd.

[Dyvid]

Alright so I finally got to 60. Here's my suggestion SE:

1- Give draw a longer CD in exchange for us to be able to draw any card we wish to use. This should balance the RNG factor.

Honestly not a fan of this one. Doing it takes away the whole gambling aspect of the job when really you just want to fix the useless cards. If every card had a good use then the random draw wouldn't be a huge issue. Plus it would be very overpowered.

In the long run, how would stance dancing actually increase their overall healing performance?

Honestly it wouldn't make that big of an impact other than the bonus AST gets. Stance changing is a good idea but would need an overhaul to actually make it useful which I doubt SE will do.