Did people even ask for changes to AST, like they do / did for MNK and MCH?

[Gravagar]

Hey, at least SCH still exists. Old AST is as dead as old MCH, and nobody asked for it.

??? Old SCH is just as dead as those other ones, though?

[ShinShimon]

??? Old SCH is just as dead as those other ones, though?

Hey, you still have shields and your fairy. The AST changes are comparable to removing Lily entirely and giving you a pet mosquito, which gives a single random party member a 5% damage resist buff every 30 seconds.

[Gravagar]

Hey, you still have shields and your fairy. The AST changes are comparable to removing Lily entirely and giving you a pet mosquito, which gives a single random party member a 5% damage resist buff every 30 seconds.

that's exactly what they did though???
I'm partially joking here, buut....

Until Deployment Tactics or something lets me deploy a whopper of a shield that makes my party go "whoa, that was awesome. Woweee, I'm really glad we had a scholar here," I'm going to say that aspect of SCH is dead. If I want big shields, I play Diurnal AST, because AST has the best shields and no one can stack single target shields higher more than Diurnal Regen Astrologian in particular.


Until there's some reason why I would want to use a fairy ability from the fairy, instead of myself, I'm going to say the pet aspect is dead. I used to like that the fairy was a parellel GCD that I could issue orders to while I was doing Scholar Things (tm). If I want to have defensive and regenerating oGCD abilities, I play, again, Diurnal AST, because their oGCD menu doesn't have a ~50% potency tax or any ghosting issues.