Goodbye Astro

[LariaKirin]

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.

Why should have they have spiked these last 4 days? Why would a job being strong automatically mean people will play it? BLM is very strong, I don't see it topping the fflogs statistics you seem to like so much.

I say a job is strong. You respond with "Not enough people play it". How does that compute?

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.

Counting the shots? MCH uses Wildfire on CD. If MCH used it at 0:05, then they're using it at 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, etc.

I'm saying that if you know more about the other jobs in the party you'll see significant gains over slapping cards willy nilly.

Obviously, you wouldn't do this if it interferes with your normal play. But if you care about maximizing RDPS contribution through your cards, this system is significantly more interesting.

If that is your nuance in the system then its pretty pathetic and takes away from doing your job of keeping people alive.

Is this what it's about? Jealous of DNC? You don't have to worry, DNC and AST do not compete for the same spot.

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.

FFlogs are not a good indicator for many reasons:
- Not everyone parses.
- Out of all people that parse, not everyone uploads logs.
- One person accounts for multiple logs. If I parse two runs of Eden and upload, I count as two SCH parses.

In fact, if I go into E1S today and clear it 100000 times, then by your logic, AST would be the most popular job.


Anyways, I'm done. AST is strong. The healers are more balanced than they've ever been. People will realize it sooner or later.