Ast cards 6.0 rework

[Side-Eye]

If you're not using lightspeed on cooldown (which conveniently, lines up well with sleevedraw, wow would you look at that) thats probably where a good chunk of your mana issues are coming from.

If you're NOT using it for heal-intensive phases when the party is taking excessive damage and/or repeated bursts of damage, or using it when your GCDs are spent and the tank is sinking fast, you ARE going to have mana issues (and probably a dead tank). I absolutely refuse to use such an important tool as Lightspeed to make an optional like sleevedraw ability less clunky. I'll throw cards in the trash before I allow them to consume a tool that has many other uses.

The card system should function -- and function well -- without eating up a long recast ability which happens to be our only cast-time and mana-cost reducer.

[Mavrias]

If you're NOT using it for heal-intensive phases when the party is taking excessive damage and/or repeated bursts of damage, or using it when your GCDs are spent and the tank is sinking fast, you ARE going to have mana issues (and probably a dead tank). I absolutely refuse to use such an important tool as Lightspeed to make an optional like sleevedraw ability less clunky. I'll throw cards in the trash before I allow them to consume a tool that has many other uses.

The card system should function -- and function well -- without eating up a long recast ability which happens to be our only cast-time and mana-cost reducer.

I've already said that needing lightspeed for sleeve draw is bad game design. You're beating a dead horse here.

I cant personally speak for TEA because i dont have the time to devote to it rn. But E4S and content below there isnt really any heal intensive phase you need to hold lightspeed for unless you are solo healing. You should be able to rely mostly on your oGCDs unless you are not coordinating well with your cohealer.

Also "sleevedraw optional" lol. If you're not going to use the cards which are half the job's identity you might as well play a different healer.

Dont use it for sleeve draw if thats your perogative. But holding onto it for a phase more than a minute and a half out or just in case someone screws up is gonna hurt your mana more than anything.

[MitsukiKimura]

I've already said that needing lightspeed for sleeve draw is bad game design. You're beating a dead horse here.

I cant personally speak for TEA because i dont have the time to devote to it rn. But E4S and content below there isnt really any heal intensive phase you need to hold lightspeed for unless you are solo healing. You should be able to rely mostly on your oGCDs unless you are not coordinating well with your cohealer.

Also "sleevedraw optional" lol. If you're not going to use the cards which are half the job's identity you might as well play a different healer.

Dont use it for sleeve draw if thats your perogative. But holding onto it for a phase more than a minute and a half out or just in case someone screws up is gonna hurt your mana more than anything.

That's implying everyone's in a static coordinating with their co healer on mechanics. Which tells me you expect everyone does this and plays this way. I don't feel like this is going anywhere so I'll leave it at this. I can get away without using Thin Air off the Global cooldown and I'm sure SCH doesn't suffer that badly if not using Aether flow off cooldown. AST is the only healer where you "Have" to use it off cooldown. Shouldn't be that way.

[Mavrias]

That's implying everyone's in a static coordinating with their co healer on mechanics. Which tells me you expect everyone does this and plays this way. I don't feel like this is going anywhere so I'll leave it at this. I can get away without using Thin Air off the Global cooldown and I'm sure SCH doesn't suffer that badly if not using Aether flow off cooldown. AST is the only healer where you "Have" to use it off cooldown. Shouldn't be that way.

I pugged most of this tier lmao. It doesn't take much to say a few words to your cohealer during set up.

I dont play whm much so idk about thin air usage, but i do play sch and i can tell you if you're not using aetherflow on cooldown you are absolutely wasting resources and missing out on mana given through its use and through energy drains. Of course you can "get away" with not using it, but why would you waste resources like that?

[MitsukiKimura]

I pugged most of this tier lmao. It doesn't take much to say a few words to your cohealer during set up.

I dont play whm much so idk about thin air usage, but i do play sch and i can tell you if you're not using aetherflow on cooldown you are absolutely wasting resources and missing out on mana given through its use and through energy drains. Of course you can "get away" with not using it, but why would you waste resources like that?

I've already told you earlier. Ending this discussion.

[Mavrias]

I've already told you earlier. Ending this discussion.

Cool beans. When you reply to me with further points im still going to reply to them, though. If you don't want me to reply to you, stop replying to me.