4.3 AST changes/speculations

[Ghishlain]

The second point I agree as well. I remember hearing that a phase in UCoB removed held cards or something at a certain part, and it was harder on Astro to keep up with Hps? Make it easier on Astros but harder on another Healer for the next tier.

I didn't raid Ultimate so someone correct me if I'm mistaken regarding the next bit.

AST wasn't brought to Ultimate because there was a mandatory wipe mechanic at around the 15 minute mark when Bahamut goes Saiyan on you soon afterwards. This wipe mechanic also removed all buffs (including stored cards). The next phase afterwards is a short 3 minute window of DPS and heals check with minor mechanics. Thus you couldn't store cards for this part of the fight and had to fish for cards during a very small window of the fight.

Also I believe SCH mitigation tools lined up for the fight timelines as well, since you're dealing with Gigaflares / Exaflares in 60s intervals or something, making it hard to make use of CO from the AST kit to help mitigate damage.

The final point I agree and disagree with. Yes Astro's mana is an issue but I honestly believe if they fix this Astro problem.. Whm identity again should be questioned..

I feel adjusting AST MP is going to be a touchy subject overall, but I feel it won't be as bad as it would be in the 3.X era with the super buffed LA since WHM's current iteration has more instant burst oGCDs than AST.

I guess time will tell. Like I said, healer balance is there but it's standing on a knife's edge. Any shift in any direction and the whole balance would can go totally out of whack.

[Maltothoris]

Also I believe SCH mitigation tools lined up for the fight timelines as well, since you're dealing with Gigaflares / Exaflares in 60s intervals or something, making it hard to make use of CO from the AST kit to help mitigate damage.

Ya Morn Afah(400k damage at least so u need at least 2 10 percent damage reduction) was every 50 seconds with the third being 30 seconds so you could have sacred soil for every single one where with CU you could only have it up at most 3 times and also depends on party comp. And even before that during Bahamut, Soil could be used for every gigaflare and on heavensfall could be used for the fireball that preceded it. Sch's various mitigation tools won out against noct during that.

But I had a feeling that Astro was going to get adjusted. And during a question at the place where the live letter was taking place, the change mentioned when one of about noct astro vs sch. The problem here is that their way of trying to make Noct more useful always defaults to make shields better. We saw it in 3.07., 3.3, 3.4 and 4.0 and I suspect it would no different here.