Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
Mp issues should be for nocturnal exclusively that is where it bleeds mp Diurnal doesn't have anywhere near the same issue so they could very easily mess up if handled badly. [...]
Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
You weren't using [Lightspeed] on cooldown for movement or the mp reduction, you were using on cooldown for cast time reduction as it lined perfectly with the atrocious sleeve draw windows(you had the right reasoning that sleeve draw is the issue but the wrong reason why it is used on cd).
AST has MP issues across the board, not just nocASt. Once a fight drags on for ~6+ min, even with constant uses of Lightspeed and Lucid, your MP will go dry if you didn't stack ridiculious amounts of piety. And that is for Malefic/Combust casts only! With GCD heals that becomes even worse.

I myself are by no means a pro AST, so I might miss my Lucid or Lightspeed just by a few seconds. But even then, my MP shouldn't be dry out that quick. At first, I thought I didn't manage enough, but even the records of some speed kills in E5s show ASTs at less than 1k MP at the 6-7 min mark. And as you can imagine, they didn't use a single heal, so they were just spaming their spells with lowest MP cost (aside from Esuna ofc).

In comparison: WHM doesn't seen to ever fall below 6k MP, SCH barely get their MP lower than 2-5k, so they are still save. (Unless ofc, they start GCD healing that are not lily heals.)
AST shouldn't need to go for high piety gear, just because their MP management tool ain't that effective. Even more laughable, Lightspeed is most effective when your GCD is lower than 2.41s, so you get 7 GCDs into its window, and for most people who don't play in SE server basement (higher ping), sometimes 2.38s is not enough. At the same time, higher SpS screws with your CDs (e.g. Draw). Imho not a good concept. (And yes, getting 1 more GCD in Lightspeed with higher SpS saves you more MP than lower SpS, and only 6 GCDs in Lightspeed.)