Goodbye Astro

[LariaKirin]

Its the majority, shared across all three regions. There are more people upset and throwing away the class then there are those who like it. AST's representation in high end content has all but vanished, and their appearance in normal content ques has all but vanished.

You know that for a fact because you've done the numbers. Please share.

Also, you know for a fact that AST's representation in high end content is because people are unhappy with the new cards, not due to the fact that it was severly undertuned for the entirety of Shadowbringers minus 4 days.

Now that the cards do not have a duration worth a damn their weak effects lack impact. As a result ASTs overall impact is weak. The weaker the buff the longer the duration needs to be, which is why Dancer's buffs work and why Dancer is an automatic pick for many raid groups while AST is left to gather dust.

What I am saying and what I am trying to illustrate with the example is that because the damage buff is on a shorter duration, you now have more nuanced decisions to make when choosing your target.

It would not matter which one you throw it on. If the MCH is outputting 12k DPS then giving him the card is an extra 720 DPS. If the BLM is doing 13k DPS then throwing the card on him adds an extra 780 DPS. A 60 DPS difference.

The DPS difference between either of them is so small as to not matter. You throw it on whichever one you can click on faster.

No wonder you don't understand the shorter duration thing. When you see 13k DPS on a Black Mage, do you think that any of their abilities equally contribute to the total DPS?

The reason it didn't matter with a 30 second Balance is because those 30 seconds would span the entire BLM rotation, therefore it wouldn't matter where they were in their rotation. If you use the card on the Black Mage in my scenario, you're boosting the following: Blizzard III, Blizzard IV, Thunder, Xeno, Fire III and maybe one Fire IV.

What you are telling me here is that the difference between MCH's Wildfire phase and BLM's ice phase is negligible.