5.3 A response to the AST "balance" changes

[Ilenya]

I assume the MP recovery in Lightspeed was removed so that AST didn't have too much of it. There's a fine line of balance I am guessing they are aiming for...

Where that line is, I have no idea. I assume their healer balance line is somewhere in another country right now.

[EONX_]

I assume the MP recovery in Lightspeed was removed so that AST didn't have too much of it. There's a fine line of balance I am guessing they are aiming for...

Where that line is, I have no idea. I assume their healer balance line is somewhere in another country right now.

Removing the 50% lower MP cost from AST is balanced out from lowering MP costs on other skills (Helios, Aspected Helios, Benefic II, Aspected Benefic, Combust, etc). If they kept Lightspeed the same and didn't lower the MP cost of other GCDs, the MP would be roughly same between the two changes.