AST Wishlist for 5.0

[CorbinDallas]

Delete the sects and double down on Astrologians actual unique gameplay hook, cards and buff manipulation.

Hybrids that fulfil more than a single type of gameplay can never be balanced and only narrow the design space for future jobs. With AST existing in it's current state, that of a "WHM/SCH with cards", Dancer has no chance of being remotely unique with it's own healing niche. It will need to have shields or regens to be viable.

The PvP version of Astrologian is my dream. The rapid casting, buffing machine. It doesn't need to take from the other 2 healers to be unique, the cards already do that.

[loreleidiangelo]

Delete the sects and double down on Astrologians actual unique gameplay hook, cards and buff manipulation.

Hybrids that fulfil more than a single type of gameplay can never be balanced and only narrow the design space for future jobs. With AST existing in it's current state, that of a "WHM/SCH with cards", Dancer has no chance of being remotely unique with it's own healing niche. It will need to have shields or regens to be viable.

The PvP version of Astrologian is my dream. The rapid casting, buffing machine. It doesn't need to take from the other 2 healers to be unique, the cards already do that.

Basically. It also makes them waaaaaaay too easy to compare. "WHM only has this-and-this, while WHMAST has this, this, AND this, why would you ever bring a WHM" etc etc. Tbh though a big part of what SE needed to do with HW was remove the necessity for SCH shields for prog content, so that any composition without a SCH could actually survive raid mechanics. AST was doomed to compete with either WHM or SCH if the devs didn't do what they did with the Sect crap, because frankly they didn't understand that bubbles being required to survive stuff is godawful healer design that seriously limits new healer creativity.