How come AST cards dont heal the Target?

[Milestailsprowe]

As Astrologian is supposed to be the Buff healer it doesn't heal much.

It has the basic heal set up but not much OGCD. Its main thing is the cards but its weird that the cards from the healer don't HEAL.

The royal roaded buffed cards could be real nice like Enchanced does big heal, Extended does a regen, and Spread does a bit of both.

It would help alot with the mp issues

[Neela]

personally i think it would be too much... Ast got several instant heals and even instant heals with buffeffect (shield or regen)... giving the cards a heal bonus, would make them way to strong in my opinion...

[Milestailsprowe]

Honestly more often then not you would just be over healing people at full health anyway.

Better to Overheal then under.

Eh, nice in theory but RNG would make this so unreliable and if our buffs are being used for Regens and boosts (which our spells and abilities already do) why bother having all the different types of cards? Would you still be using them for PT buffs? If no buffs then AST needs more dps spells to make up the loss in support. You'd have to overhaul the entire class and frankly, I'm not sold on the idea.

The cards still give a buff just a low potency heal or regen too

personally i think it would be too much... Ast got several instant heals and even instant heals with buffeffect (shield or regen)... giving the cards a heal bonus, would make them way to strong in my opinion...

Yeah but they only have 1 off GCD heal while WHM and SCH have 3

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

What's next? Why doesn't our gravity AoE heal the group?

[Dayala]

Eh, nice in theory but RNG would make this so unreliable and if our buffs are being used for Regens and boosts (which our spells and abilities already do) why bother having all the different types of cards? Would you still be using them for PT buffs? If no buffs then AST needs more dps spells to make up the loss in support. You'd have to overhaul the entire class and frankly, I'm not sold on the idea.

[Sinaloa]

I bet this will come within time.

LvL 62 Ast. - Throw - Throws the active card on your target. If it is friendly you heal it for 100 potency. If it is hostile deal 100 potency damage. Does not apply royal road.

Most propably extended with different cards having different sideeffects (dispell, hot, movement up // slow, heavy, dot).

[Dyvid]

Honestly more often then not you would just be over healing people at full health anyway.

[Anubis_Nephthys]

Why do people think AST is weak?
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[Milestailsprowe]

Why do people think AST is weak?
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I dont think its weak outside of Nocturnal but it would be a nice thing to its tool kit as it would give MP Free heals. This would also make up for the lack of a fairy in Nocturnal Stance as the cards can buff and restore health Off GCD so the person can keep Dpsing

[Neela]

Why do people think AST is weak?
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Because most of them compare them too much with whm/sch... ill never hear people screaming out for more whm/sch buffskills... why are so much ast crying for stronger heals? Ast should be a cls of its own not a hybrid-clone thingy... the Dui healing-kit is great and the card-system is a funky bonus - but i like upcoming ideas in this thread like giving gravity a statuseffect or like:

(...) Throw - Throws the active card on your target. If it is friendly you heal it for 100 potency. If it is hostile deal 100 potency damage. Does not apply royal road. Most propably extended with different cards having different sideeffects (dispell, hot, movement up // slow, heavy, dot).

this would make the ast even more unique and outstanding in comparisson with the burst healing whm or the dps hybrid sch - but thats just my opinion ^^