Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
I played AST from 70 to 80 before the 5.05 buffs.
It was fine. People are overreacting.
The OP has a few hyperboles in it but the complaint is reasonably well put
-The card system is too much work for not enough gain, say what you will about the old system at least it felt impactful
-There are too many ogcds to juggle to be as effective as you can be, this is tied into the card system, the numerous timers going on and Earthly star being the only one with a failsafe if you lose track while healing
-Neutral feels underwhelming, this is due to ast having lost it's increased healing on sects so our heals naturally became weaker (same with sch/whm losing Largesse but ast lost that too so we lost 2x the amount of potency increasing)
-Nocturnal being Nocturnal, this has always been an issue since inception, Diurnal has always been better, ShB just put more shade on it
-CU is weak and pathetic and needs a buff something most ast believe it should

Now i do not agree with OP on everything but they put forward a good argument why they are not liking ast atm, the stuff i added in my post are direct problems i have ast.

But i am going to contest you on ast was fine pre 5.05, it was not it was very close to launch 3.0 ast in terms of how undertuned it was the 5.05 buffs made it go from barely ok to 'its fine' status like the other healers, which ofc have their own issues as well. Nothing here has been an overreaction apart from the finger gymnastics but to get the best opener you kinda do need to do that but it quietens down after that as does most dps jobs (opener is always busiest part then when buffs realign so for Ast 6 mins in), i mean we could always open another thread whenever ast gets a buff whm would be made completely redundant again :P

Now take this with a grain of salt but if the devs followed your line of reasoning with, Ast was fine pre 5.05, how bad do you think it would be in savage? bare in mind after the buffs Ast is still behind Whm and Sch in usuability(3-4 weeks in), providing rDPS(not personal its utility is still behind whm's pure dps and sch's mix), it can heal good(when it used to be the worse at it).

It paints you as someone who is blindly going along with whatever despite glaring issues and trying to downplay people's concerns with a job that needs to be looked at more (Whm and Sch for that matter too).