4.3 AST changes/speculations

[Eloah]

I haven't read every post, but I just wanted to make a comment based on what I read at the start. Be advised I play SCH, so my opinion might seem biased, but I swear it's not. While slight changes to Nocturnal Sect might be good, it can't and shouldn't change drastically. Right now you can use Noct Sect comfortably, but too far in either direction and it'll either make them too weak, or out perform SCH by a wide margin. SCH still needs to be the "sheild" healer, not AST.

[Heilstos]

(...). While slight changes to Nocturnal Sect might be good, it can't and shouldn't change drastically. Right now you can use Noct Sect comfortably, but too far in either direction and it'll either make them too weak, or out perform SCH by a wide margin. SCH still needs to be the "sheild" healer, not AST.

Hey again Eloah,

First at all this thread is not "Scholor vs Nocturnal AST" thread! If you want write "Sch still needs to be THE "shield" healer and not the AST."

If you want to comment this, I recommend you this thread: Scholar vs Astrologian Mitigation

I find it questionable to suggest that the Nocturnal astro is right now "comfortably".

But I'm so free to show, a section of an astrologian guide by the player Sweet Memories of the realm "Faerie"



Source: Astrologian A Healer’s Handbook V. 2

That's not my view. But it shows that a sandbox healer should have the freedom. But not in the case which the Astro has now.

[Eloah]

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Umm... hi?

I'm not entirely sure why you made that reply, but thank you? I wasn't indicating this was a SCH vs Noct AST thread, just that in my opinion Noct Sect "works" now, and I personally don't think it needs a change. And if it does get one it should be minor.

The main reason I said they were "comfortable" at the moment is because right now the shields provide enough mitigation to be viable, without shifting the healer dynamic and throwing off the balance.

I'm sure plenty of players still hate it. But that doesn't mean it isnt working as intended.

Honestly though, the biggest change thst should be made is the ability to swap stances in battle, but at a "price". What that price should be I'm not sure. Maybe make it a personal/unique card buff that lets you use the other sect for 10-15s or so; Lunar Ascension, Stellar Decent, I dunno.