Every time I decide to play Ast, I find a thread that destroys my enthusiasm.

[DarkmoonVael]

First of all, I am new to this job.

Secondly: The spell tip for "Luminiferous Aether" wasn't clear to me. I never knew that "Refresh" meant gaining mana back.
I always used this skill whenever I knew that there is lots of healing incoming, or whenever I have to dps. So long story short, I used it for the enmity solely.

And for me it seemed like managing my mana is a lot easier when I died and got ressed on my WHM. But again, mainly because I didn't know what Refresh meant up until this point.


Last but not least, calm down your tits a bit. Your hostile tone is very negative and it doesn't help me post my own opinion at all.




What I said above, applies to you too...

About the Benefic part: I mostly end up using too much mana by using Benefic 2 the most because the tanks seem to eat up too much damage nowadays.



But thank you both for being so hostile though. It sure encourages people to post their own pov on the class.
You both seem to have missed that I enjoy this class the most and it is my main currently.

Opinions are subjective, facts are objective.

When a pov on a class is based on nothing but misunderstandings on a class and passing them off as facts, thene expect people to call you out on them.

There is a distinct difference between these 2 statements: "i seem to have issue with AST mana" (subjective) and "AST doesnt have any skills to get mana back, except the ewer card which is too random, and the buff it gives too small" (trying to be objective, but catagorically untrue).

People reactions are based on passing off false information as facts.

Little bit of research goes a long way, especially in a thread where the OP is unsure about AST and needs FACTS to be correct. Research...it takes all of 2 mins.

What you can do with MP management is use LA at 80% or so, by the time the effect wears off you'll be in a good spot. Then just keep using it whenever it isn't on cooldown. You'll rarely run out of MP that way.

Benefic is still useful, since even if you have to chain cast it to keep a tank alive, the chance to proc the no-cast Bene II can help a lot with yoyo tanks.

To be fair they were a bit harsh but their advice is sound.

Dont forget that celestial opposition can extend LA by 5 secs, so you can hold off LA usageage sligtly longer in most content. Raids tend to have set times you will be needing to use LA anyway.