What do you want in your AST?

[Brandedblade]

Solo content still exists. And it’s usually pretty painful on healers (since the gutting of SCH, anyway). And considering AST is behind the other healers in rdps even when they’re buffing dps effectively, they must be especially painful in solo content (I haven’t tried solo content on AST post 5.0 so I can’t say from personal experience). It’d be nice if AST’s buffs could at least get it up to where near where the other healers are in solo content. Even if you did that it still wouldn’t be optimal to use it on yourself in group content, because a x % damage boost on the class with the lowest pdps in the game is never going to be as effective as a damage boost on literally anyone else.

You couldn’t buff the cards that much, since that could end making the AST too powerful compared to the other healers (not saying they’re at the perfect level now, just that there’s a point at which you wouldn’t want to increase it any more). However, Roxas’s suggestions shouldn’t increase AST’s rdps, but they would make AST more effective in solo content, while also making that solo content more satisfying. I really don’t see any problem with that.

What his suggestion does mean that cards will most likely be changed into another aetherflow mechanic where your goal in optimizing them is to minimize their intended use by trying to throw out as many Lord nukes as possible.

[Roxas_Andrade]

And again, I fail to see an issue with this. I understand what you mean now but is... is this really an issue? It sucks that a mechanic meant to help you buff your party...is less optimal when used selfishly? So what?

So... nothing. It's just that this is a topic for thing you want on AST and I think in this aspect, pre-5.X had a better point o some skills. It's just something I want back. We're just talking...

What his suggestion does mean that cards will most likely be changed into another aetherflow mechanic where your goal in optimizing them is to minimize their intended use by trying to throw out as many Lord nukes as possible.

I can totally see this happening O.O
When new cards came, a lot of people thought about simply not using Divination mini-game and go Lord/Ladying everything for the bigger buffs. Until the math people came and we saw that Divination is worth it more than that. It's just a matter of making Seals a beter advantage to the group than Lord nukes...