Quote Originally Posted by Teraluna View Post
Now, what about the effect of these buffs to the Astro on the other healers.......?
I've said before that SE have painted themselves into a corner by making this third healer similar to the others in terms of a ranged healing class.

Balancing all three would be the target, but has the Astro leapt ahead to the detriment of the others, (particularly the WHM)?
AST + SCH is the new meta. Bye bye White Mage.

I don't really believe it's as simple as that, but I do think it's a little bit concerning how little utility WHM has now in comparison to AST+SCH. AST and SCH can now reduce the damage taken by the party by 25ish-30% with SS, CU and expanded Bole, not to mention the big boost to Bole's mitigation, and of course, to top it all off, the ridiculous buff to Balance.


I understand they made these changes to make NoctAST as desireable as SCH, but the nature of the DPS increase provided by AST (all of it being dependant on RNG) and its continouous inability to consistently DPS throughout a fight due to MP management problems are not solving anything. The bigger barriers are very nice (intimidatingly nice, if I say so myself as a Scholar player), but I'm afraid this isn't tipping the scales in favor of NoctAST, just in the detriment of WHM

I still don't think WHM will just disappear, cause it's a very, very convenient job for progression. But I can definitely see a lot main healers dropping WHM in favor of AST.