Things currently wrong with frontlines that the community would like to see fixed

[Dimitrii]

The purpose Ruin II is that annoying blind effect anyway. It\\'s not as if summoner is short on insta cast high dmg abilities, making Ruin II comparable to melee weaponskills would be ridiculous.

I agree with the ast comment 100% though. They are far better at keeping themselves or one person alive as a pocket healer than they are at keeping a party up. They are actually pretty pathetic at party heals compared to whm and sch. I much prefer the other two heals as a melee in 72 mans. To the point where I usually have to switch to whm if I see only a ast in our party cause I know he won\\'t keep everyone alive with all the dots and aoe everywhere. Ast are better in 24 man and wolves den.

[lovelikewinter]

The purpose Ruin II is that annoying blind effect anyway. It\\'s not as if summoner is short on insta cast high dmg abilities, making Ruin II comparable to melee weaponskills would be ridiculous.

I agree with the ast comment 100% though. They are far better at keeping themselves or one person alive as a pocket healer than they are at keeping a party up. They are actually pretty pathetic at party heals compared to whm and sch. I much prefer the other two heals as a melee in 72 mans. To the point where I usually have to switch to whm if I see only a ast in our party cause I know he won\\'t keep everyone alive with all the dots and aoe everywhere. Ast are better in 24 man and wolves den.

I like how you've completely disregarded a large majority of my comment- and disregarded Kyani's post entirely.

Blind is seriously your biggest concern? Lol.

[Petite]

They are far better at keeping themselves or one person alive as a pocket healer than they are at keeping a party up. They are actually pretty pathetic at party heals compared to whm and sch.

Sorry Knives but saying ASTs are pathetic at AOE healing is stretching it immensely.

- Your group got hit by a Bane? Pop Retrogradation and Focalization
- Your group's HP is dangerously low? Pop Light speed and spam Helios/Aspected Helios
- Light speed on cooldown? Equanimity is still very useful to ASTs so you can just stand in place and AOE spam
- Collective Unconscious gives a 15s HoT to party members that stand in it for at least 2 seconds so use it when there's no rush
- Synastry
- Healer LB

Yes WHMs have a better kit for AOE healing (Assize, Asylum, Sacred Prism), but AST's AOE healing is still strong. You just don't see many great astros because most are mediocre players that just use Asp Benefic and Dignity.

That said, all healers can single or AOE heal just fine, but Noct AST is better suited for SR because of its far superior healing-mobility, a huge advantage.

P.S.: Imagine adding a 1 second cast time to aspected benefic. No one would even consider playing AST lol.

[lovelikewinter]

- Your group got hit by a Bane? Pop Retrogradation and Focalization

That's not how DoTs work...