Overreaction to Astrologian buff.

[BroodingFicus]

Let me make this simple for you.

1:30 10% dos buff + heals that keep up with whm significantly changes the game when you nee higher eps to get less boss phases or burn phases easier.

So yea, whm specifically better watch out. Utility healers will always be superior to raw throughput healers with equal skill.

Sch isn\\\\'t going anywhere.

Which one of you liked my place holder shouting XD. Come on guys.

But yes, this is sorta my first impression too.

They made a half WHM half SCH and then the cards, the AST own unique niche, did not make them competitive enough to be on par with the other two. At that point, unless they tweaked the card system a lot (what I wish they would have done), the only viable option was to buff the WHM or SCH attributes until they were on par. Clearly they chose WHM. As far as I can tell they are about on the nose with us as flat out healers which is unfortunate since that has been our niche until now and we have no buffs to offer to make ourselves stand out. Will it wipe out WHM? I don't think so. Do I like it? No. I've wanted an AST since they were announced. It is their buff/card system that drew me to them but I held off waiting for them to be 'fixed'. I didn't expect these fixes would come to base potency when there is so much potential elsewhere. It feels sorta like a lazy way to make them viable by essentially giving them WHM potency in heals.

[adn]

As a healer who does not play AST:
1) I'm happy I no longer have to groan and rub my forehead any time I see my healing partner is AST.
2) I'm happy that AST threads will stop clogging up the entire freaking first page of the healer forums (hopefully)
3) I'm happy that S-E has shown that they take healer balance seriously rather than just leaving AST broken until 4.0 or whatever. That means that if for whatever reason WHM/SCH starts to fall behind, they will probably get tweaked.

Synastry is arguably the best healing CD in the game now but it's just one piece of a larger puzzle; I have played with numerous AST since the patch and they feel like they are where they need to be without being OP.

People screaming about being replaced need to calm down.

[SuperTacoBehemoth]

No matter how you cut it, Astrologian is on par with White Mage and Scholar. The buffs they have, all have their own effect and place, so you cant really compare them to White Mage or Scholar, and vice versa. Its not that they have stronger shields that makes them more powerful than Scholar, or the fact that Astrologians have the same potency heals as a White Mage so they can burst heal almost the same; Astrologian was just made to be close to equal as possible. So lets cut the bullshit with AST v SCH v WHM. All three of them are now equal

-Sincerely, someone who has WHM SCH AST leveled and tried all three in A1s.

[Cedane]

I guess I'm not the only one who is surprised by the overreaction and not really part of the group, and I am a WHM for main class.

However, I also play SCH and AST too. I'm in the process of leveling SCH. So depending what people need, I can switch between healers accordingly. Like it or not, AST was -horrible- for speedruns and the high raid end group. These buffs were sorely needed. I've enjoyed AST a lot more with the new changes and I welcome future Astrologians in future bro heal fists.