Astrologian 5.0 Discussion

[Sanghelios]

The best part is that they did this for the raiders since you "fished for balance anyway" and even they are like:

"no, lol"



Less than 12%, GG Square Enix.

So, is this new system even better than before? a lucky AST could keep having a AoE damage buff every min (either with Arrow / Balance / Spear)and then add lucky draws from Sleeve Draw, otherwise even they should be pissed.

A lot forget the fact that balance was that good because "useless cards" like ewer, spire and bole existed to balance (pun intended) itself and not just that but to complement the nuance RR system.

Not just give us back our cards, give us back our buff management from Time Dilatation and Celestial Opposition.

Sure it was powerful before but like every single developer likes to say, you shouldn't nerf, instead buff the others around it.

Even better than your example is the amount of clears for E4S. With WHM having 326, SCH 336 and AST just 22. Guess thats balanced. I can already see 5.1 or 5.2 being an absurd emergency patch that buffs ASTs card potency back to 20% so that people start picking it up again. Then, around 5.4 they will announce that there is no new healer in 6.0 because the current ones need to balanced. :/

[Crushnight]

Even better than your example is the amount of clears for E4S. With WHM having 326, SCH 336 and AST just 22. Guess thats balanced. I can already see 5.1 or 5.2 being an absurd emergency patch that buffs ASTs card potency back to 20% so that people start picking it up again. Then, around 5.4 they will announce that there is no new healer in 6.0 because the current ones need to balanced. :/

It certainly seems like 5.X will repeat 3.X for healers >_>

Ast 3.0 undertuned ->3.08 healing buffed -> 3.2 cards buffed to be reasonably balanced to other healers (currently the most balanced we ever got as healers) -> 3.4 unasked overbuffs that break the balance literally -> 4.X we not adding new healer because we need to balance existing 3.

History is repeating just hope it stops at a sweet spot this time (it won't but here is hoping).

[Allegor]

4.X we not adding new healer because we need to balance existing 3.

Wait....they used the same excuse twice?!

[Crushnight]

Wait....they used the same excuse twice?!

Yes they have, it is why a lot of longer running healers are disgruntled at how the so called 'balance' has turned out and the fact it feels we are still far from any semblance of balance, which will probably overbuff ast again >_> unfortunately.

The longer this imbalance goes on the more likely they overtune ast again which no one should want because 1.They failed balance thus for a 3rd expansion in a row expect no new hlr which is just no, 2. Whm will get the shaft again because for the life of them the cannot sort Nocturnal to a balanced state with Diurnal and sch, 3. New expansion will stupify ast kit again either build on with very powerful abilities or another rework to who knows how useful or undertuned it is.