Reason i wont be playing Astro anymore after ShadowBringers launches.

[Kabooa]

How about when your doing that last wall-to-wall pull in a dungeon and you want to make sure you dont have to wait for Mana before the boss fight? AOE Bole once the tank has all the mobs in a pile and relax a bit as you dont need to have your finger hovering over insta-cast heal for when that Samuri or Ninja gets hit by 5 overlapping AOE attacks they didnt see because there's 20 mobs all piled up in one spot.

AoE bole isn't saving anyone MP and only serves as the best example to why the current iteration of cards is mostly meaningless outside balance.

[Rahspdoy]

AoE bole isn't saving anyone MP and only serves as the best example to why the current iteration of cards is mostly meaningless outside balance.

And your just ignoring the entire fact that Spear 'was' useful to directly work off another class' mechanics? Because Bole does not 'seem' useful to you, then 'all' other cards are just as useless?

[Kabooa]

And your just ignoring the entire fact that Spear 'was' useful to directly work off another class' mechanics? Because Bole does not 'seem' useful to you, then 'all' other cards are just as useless?

Yes, because if you don't have a monk or Bard, Spear's value immediately diminishes, but Balance doesn't.

So Spear is only ever arguably equal to Balance when you have specific jobs partied with you, and in every other case is inferior.

Same with Arrow.

Spire is only for RR or Minor Arcana food, both options (lord/Lady) are inferior to just boosting up a party member.
Ewer has some use, but every other buff to Astrologian has made Ewer less and less significant.