AST's nerf goes too far.

[Cer_Elys]

R.I.P. Noct Stance 2016

All joking aside, we'll see how it plays out. While unnerfed Asp. Benefic definitely used to be OP for life support and as a means to avoid casting interruptions, forcing the skill floor to rise (everyone knows that at its lowest level, AST was braindead easy to play to a relatively effective degree) might be interesting in its own right.

How could they leave Astrologians so overpowered in PvP for so long?

Really? They were making themselves and their allies immortal for almost a year and just getting nerf next week? What did they do in the past 7-8 months?

You do know that in comparison to SCH and WHM, AST has the least effective tools to keep a full party under heavy pressure alive, right? Just because they were harder to kill or interrupt with unorganised burst doesn't mean that they can make themselves and their allies immortal, no matter how much you meant that as a hyperbole.

AST's niche is to be a mobile healer with great self durability and pocket heal potential, making it more of a noob trap for lone greedy dps than anything. And even then they are not unkillable. It mostly seems to me like SOME people need to properly learn how not to blow their stuns/cc the moment those get off cd, start working out proper burst rotations and learn which priority targets to focus with their fellow dps. And not get salty when they blow their melee LBs on a full vit specced, shielded AST without even so much as locking them down first. Because that is often where I feel all the "zomg nerf AST!!" cries coming from.