What does everyone think about those AST buffs?

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Care to explain in detail how all of what you're saying is true? Or is it all 90% and probablies? Seems people want one thing to always be better and never equal, after all.

Well astro doesn't have a Fairy. Doesn't have lustrates, indomitability or better MP regen.
I think it's a fair trade, slightly better potency for worse emergency tools.

Few things, Noc Ast and SCH will never be in the same part, Aldos still crits for 200%, our "sacred soil" requires us to not cast and not move, and as a buff class why shouldnt our buffs outweight your fairy?

With good rng they can outweight selene but absolutely not sch personal dps, and scholar has still more mitigation tools with a better mana management. Adlo cost more mp than aspected, but scholar can also count on a lot more mp. Also, they miss the fairy. Astro's probably better at single target healing thanks to sinastry and is a bit more free on aoe healing, but scholar is still king in mitigation, emergency heals and dps.

To all:

Aspect bene is 263 potency with a 130% guaranteed shield, meaning the only way a scholar can put up a stronger shield (the hallmark of their job) is to get a crit - and with current gear that gives a 10-15% chance.

The fairy is not a strong argument in scholars favor since SE has silent nerfed them. In addition in terms of emergencies your aspected bene is instant cast - this lets you throw an ehp potency of 605 on anyone at any time without even popping a CD (aka more than lustrate). Scholar may have slightly better emergency aoe healing with indomitability – but your aoe healing is better overall.

As for DawnSolarias argument thank you for falling right into my point. Your buffs should outweigh our fairies – but by the same token, as a shield class, why shouldn’t our shields outweigh your shields?

What are all these more/better scholar mitigation tools your talking about Soyre? I’m just not seeing them. Astrologian has better shields 85-90% of the time, a better version of sacred soil, an unshared mitigation tool (and better because potency >stats) in disable.

I'm perfectly happy that Astro got buffed - I think it was needed. But this kind of stuff is the reason three is a crowd.