Goodbye Astro

[TankHunter678]

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.

If you want hard numbers just go watch the abysmal growth of AST parses on FFlogs. If it truly was in such a good spot then its numbers should have spiked these past 4 days. Except they have not, while the WHM and SCH numbers regularly increase by 200 every other day.

Oh and when I see complaints about AST in game, it is always about the cards. When I see people say they are dumping AST they always cite the cards. Weaker healing could be put up with if the cards were worth it, but people do not feel the cards are worth it. Even the healing changes did not make AST any more prevalent because those changes were mainly aimed at EX Trials and the Savage Raids. The AoE healing it did have was sufficient for dungeons.

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.

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.

So you are saying that I should watch my BLM like a hawk to know what stage of the rotation they are in just so I can precisely time throwing my buff out. Which means I will be lacking in paying attention to the rest of my party and doing my job worse. I should also at the same time be counting the shots my MCH party member makes and how long it has been since they used wildfire so I know precisely when they are about to enter a burst window so that I have a card ready to slap on them when they are about to wildfire burst.

For incredibly tiny potential gains.

If that is your nuance in the system then its pretty pathetic and takes away from doing your job of keeping people alive. Must be why AST only functions for the most elite of elite of statics who call for this kind of stuff. Though you get better benefit out of just having your Dancer perma buff the BLM (or Monk). Though hey, perhaps that nuance is just so required that its little wonder the cards feel like they have no impact. Throw them in at the wrong time and the buff is squandered, which means 90% of AST players are screwing themselves on a regular basis. Nice to know. It just makes the new card system even more worthless.

I too wanna see this data.
And no, using savage numbers don't count because not everyone does Savage.
Though Eden normal is a better use since even causal players can beat e1.
Not accurate number but it's an idea.

If you're just going by the amount of complaining on the fourms, that's also not an accurate amount since only a small amount of players use the fourms.

AST currently makes up 16.6% of the healer parses on E1, or 4897 out of 29247. If you go E1S then it is 13.4%, or 4624 out of 34360. If you go up through normal it stays consistent in that for every 1 AST there will be 3 WHMs and roughly 2 SCHs. If you go up Savage then the amount of ASTs drastically drops to where you have up to 14 WHMs or SCHs per AST.