What does everyone think about those AST buffs?

[NorthernLadMSP]

OMG, seriously do NOT start complaining that your precious SCH needs a buff. SCH still has amazing tools at it's disposal and does NOT need buffs of any kind. You still have better MP management, the free fairy heals, way more emergency heals and the extra DPS the SCH itself can add.

[ckc22]

OMG, seriously do NOT start complaining that your precious SCH needs a buff. SCH still has amazing tools at it's disposal and does NOT need buffs of any kind. You still have better MP management, the free fairy heals, way more emergency heals and the extra DPS the SCH itself can add.

Better mp management and dps - agreed. I'm not that excited about my nerfed fairy heals. Again, astro has instant adlo that is better than lustrate and the only difference is its on the gcd - but it doesn't require any special resources.

E4E and Virus still very much beat Disable(10% for 6 second on single vs 10% for 20 seconds on multiple). Aspec Benefic is still on global so instant means very little. As for the current low crit, it might be a start of expansion deal. As gear progression SCH will get more crit thus making Aldos more powerful. CU is not a better version of Scared Soil. You can cast SS and continue to mitigate damage, while an AST has to maintain CU.

This is an oversimplification. Disable affects potency which is far more important than stat % like virus. In addition e4e/virus are shared by multiple classes and summoner even has the same advantages in cd/int traits. Disable is unshared with anyone. The global makes very little difference - you're rarely if ever spamming lustrate on someone multiple times in a row. CU has no cost compared to ss requiring aetherflow, adn now has an added regen.

As for gear progression - perhaps, but SE has gone out of their way to give Scholars the least crit of any of the healers on their esoterics gear and also doesn't do anything about right now.