Balance was balanced

[HyoMinPark]

On the patch notes, it says:

The effect of this ability has been changed from "Reduces ability recast time for a party member or self by 20% for 20 seconds" to "Increases the critical hit rate for a party member or self by 10% for 20 seconds."

I think that's what he's referring to. Still unknown if this holds true for all of the cards.

Spear was always 20 seconds, though. That's nothing new.

[Miste]

it really is that simple, sweetheart.

Please don't use condescending pet names at people when you try to argue with them. It's disgustingly rude and unnecessary.

[Cupcakesu]

Where are you seeing this at? I've looked over the Patch Notes and, unless I'm blind, not seeing anything talking about card duration nerfs anywhere in there.

They're probably talking about Spear's 20s duration, although it always had a 20s duration so it hasn't been nerfed.

[Sylvain]

Where are you seeing this at? I've looked over the Patch Notes and, unless I'm blind, not seeing anything talking about card duration nerfs anywhere in there.

Oh it's only at the spear, my bad. 20sec duration, for some reason I thought it was to all the cards.
mmm, but then, shouldn't the spear duration be brought up to 30sec? Unless crit is that good I dunno...
Maybe I should edit my post so that people don't freak out after reading my mistake...

[Novak_04]

It really seems like the Card buffs were needed when Astrologian didn't really meet par in regards to healing potencies, since AST was originally designed to be a Sub-WHM, Sub-SCH, but also had great buffing capablity. But with all the healing buffs and with more skills centered solely around raw healing power, the cards are kind of becoming a bonus.

It's basically turned into "You get a SCH and Buffs!" or "You get a WHM and Buffs!", if you add in how the RNG system isn't punishing at all, they really had to decide between nerfing potencies or nerfing cards, I guess they went with cards.

Where exactly is THIS coming from? I'm looking at the patch notes and I'm not seeing any healing buffs...

[Starflake]

Did Chain Stratagem get deleted from the game? Can AST just use all their cards whenever they want without having to Draw for them and get their Royal Road buff in place? Are all of AST's heals off the GCD now? Does AST have infinite MP? Can AST now regen and shield at the same time?

AST CANNOT do everything at once, but people act like they can, and it's so, so tiring to hear about.

Every thirty seconds you can draw. Chain Strategem is 15 seconds every two minutes. Yours lasts 30 (or 20 full seconds and even that you can enhance. The uptime is much greater. You have issues with mana? Get better mana magement then. You after all also have MP utility. If you can't see how OP Astrologian is, then I don't know what to tell you. Can you shield and heal at the same time he asks. Can you shit out 14k Physick IIs as well?

[Deceptistar]

Ast now: eat crit food and you get a auto ast skill for 30min >.>

[Exiled_Tonberry]

To all the people saying AST is useless again, take this into consideration:
You still heal as much as a WHM, you still mitigate for more than a SCH, and you now bring even more utility than before, simply at a lower level.

Meanwhile WHM can't bring any raid utility at all, and Chain Strategem is in a long CD.

You can actually count Balance being nerfed as a buff, because his you won't be throwing away every Spear/Arrow you get as "trash". You'll actually have more uptime in buffs in general.

[Born_Free]

You forgot one last thing that Aspected Benefic does...

It has the ability to hurt the feelings of every non-Astrologian healer with a potency of over 9000. Show me on the doll where the spell touched you...

So when the ASTs were bitching in HW about how bad they were doing, it's fine, but when we get nurfed to the floor, it's completely legit.
Get over yourself.

Did Chain Stratagem get deleted from the game? Can AST just use all their cards whenever they want without having to Draw for them and get their Royal Road buff in place? Are all of AST's heals off the GCD now? Does AST have infinite MP? Can AST now regen and shield at the same time?

AST CANNOT do everything at once, but people act like they can, and it's so, so tiring to hear about.

Oh look it's the "Astrologians have an RNG mechanic so it makes everything totally legit" defense! I love these.
((By the way, ain't nobody got infinite MP anymore.))

[Caduagm]

Please don't use condescending pet names at people when you try to argue with them. It's disgustingly rude and unnecessary.

Lmao, you have the best posts!