Goodbye Astro

[LariaKirin]

Funny. You say you have 2 freinds who will now play astro and like it, but all over in the game I've seen a lot who hate it or think refuse to play it cause of how it feels. Guess what. It means nothing that some of your freinds will play it, nor when I find those many who dont because we dont know the statistics.

Yes. I've literally said that these are anecdotes.

[Brarry]

The ast mains I know moved to other classes. I also switched to whm. It's a boring class who's lore and flavor have been removed. Gave it a chance with endgame and savage, it's a garbage class. Numbers don't make for fun gameplay. The numbers show it.

[Arcari]

The ast mains I know moved to other classes. I also switched to whm. It's a boring class who's lore and flavor have been removed. Gave it a chance with endgame and savage, it's a garbage class. Numbers don't make for fun gameplay. The numbers show it.

But but, the OF told me that WHM was even more boring!

[Brarry]

It's different style of healing than ast or sch. But the satisfaction and lore are still there. Can't say the same for sch and ast. Although sch is more enjoyable to play than ast

[Arcari]

It's different style of healing than ast or sch. But the satisfaction and lore are still there. Can't say the same for sch and ast. Although sch is more enjoyable to play than ast

What exactly about the healing style of AST changed?

Note: I'm not talking about the extra bells and whistles such as the cards. I'm asking strictly about AST healing.

[Nimloth]

What exactly about the healing style of AST changed?

Note: I'm not talking about the extra bells and whistles such as the cards. I'm asking strictly about AST healing.

Oops, I totally misread this at first. Nothing really has changed about AST healing per se, we just got access to a lot more oGCDs, the healing style is fundamentally the same

[Faxmonkey]

It is not gimped at all and you do not pay for it in healing options.

The second part of your statement is simply wrong. Both WHM & SCH have more healing tools than does AST, because our buffing system eats up 7 ability slots.

AST's healing is very strong following the changes in patch 5.05.

Simply stating something doesn't make it true. Nocturnal is still crap, Diurnal is okay. WHM & SCH are very strong healers, AST has been buffed to a place where it can do the content.

As I've said before, the healers are pretty well balanced right now and AST is just as strong as SCH/WHM. It will take a while for people to realize this, but it will happen.

Again saying something repeatedly doesn't make it so and you have completely ignored my primary argument that their healing design with one healer having less options will run into problems if they mean what they say about healing in 5.xx.
You can't design encounters that are hard for SCH & WHM to heal, because then AST can't heal it. Or healing is trivial, then SCH & WHM will be boring or you'll have the same problem with DPS healers that the DEVs wanted to get rid of, by axing what made SCH & AST fun.

[Almostward]

It's different style of healing than ast or sch. But the satisfaction and lore are still there. Can't say the same for sch and ast. Although sch is more enjoyable to play than ast

They are more satisfying to play ,but sch's lore is a little messed up with the fairy changes, but still better than Astro.

[Zolvolt]

Astro is here to stay. The devs are not changing the cards, and do not care about the feeback cause they want this set up.

Well it's sad to main a class for so long only for the devs to ruin it for me.

On the other hand its really cool to main ast for so long and then have them make it even more fun to play.

[MintnHoney]

On the other hand its really cool to main ast for so long and then have them make it even more fun to play.

If only that's what they did.