3.3 AST adjustments

[Kerrigen]

SCH spends a lot of the first few phases dps'ing whilst doing some much needed triage healing (indom and lustrate), something that a Nocturnal AST can not mimic at all. The difference in shield potency between N.AST and SCH doesnt really do anything in N.AST favour, as the significant factor for this fight is SCH oGCD heals, Fairy, SCH personal dps

Yeah, that's how it's worked for me as a SCH, and I'm pretty sure we'd lose raid DPS with me as an N.AST rather than SCH, and the card buffs definitely wouldn't make up for it. There's also a relatively large amount of combined healer DPS that just couldn't happen without a fairy. But my point is, this fight isn't hard enough for it to really matter in the long run. Let's be honest here, learning with a Nocturnal AST will always be rougher than learning with a SCH due to the difference in oGCD healing alone, but Noct AST will do fine here when all is said and done, and I'd at least encourage people to try.

In my experience, WHM will have an edge over Diurnal AST with the last Akh Morn in the last phase due to being able to use Cure III to make it feel like it never even happened but that's it.

[DarkmoonVael]

Yeah, that's how it's worked for me as a SCH, and I'm pretty sure we'd lose raid DPS with me as an N.AST rather than SCH, and the card buffs definitely wouldn't make up for it. There's also a relatively large amount of combined healer DPS that just couldn't happen without a fairy. But my point is, this fight isn't hard enough for it to really matter in the long run. Let's be honest here, learning with a Nocturnal AST will always be rougher than learning with a SCH due to the difference in oGCD healing alone, but Noct AST will do fine here when all is said and done, and I'd at least encourage people to try.

In my experience, WHM will have an edge over Diurnal AST with the last Akh Morn in the last phase due to being able to use Cure III to make it feel like it never even happened but that's it.

Yeah pretty much agree with everything you have written here. When learning this fight the healing combination matters, once its on farm its probably going to not so much matter.

Hopefully Nocturnal AST will get the love it needs to make it viable for learning.