AST Adjustments 6.2

[IceBlueNinja]

I was really disappointed by this. I haven't really been happy with astro since stormblood. It's always been a busy class but it feels needlessly busy now compared to busy with a point back then. I was hoping they'd get rid of superfluous buttons and make it feel fun (which I know is very subjective) to be busy vs being busy and feeling like it's a chore. I was hoping to switch to astro for week 1 clears for the next tier if the changes were good. But at this rate astro & dragoon changes will be out only for the final raid tier of the expansion which kinda kills the point really lol. They'll either release it in a very weird state like monk was in before endwalker, and finish the changes in the next expansion or change stuff during the final raid tier.....just to overhaul everything in the next expansion.

Not a great situation to be in. But also having been playing since a realm reborn beta I'm very used to getting the short end of the stick as a healer from this development team.

Thats what am saying over 1 million times stormblood astro was perfect, it was a busy class but paid off in many ways, shadow bringers + Ew worsen the cards and make you do excess things for lil to no award, really whats so nice about some mere 3% 5% buff , sure its nice lady and lord got back their storm blood effects with better potency heal and damage but guess what remember it they was given 8% buff or 6% so we only got cheated more lol. The min I was able to log into EW I ran straight to grab sage and drop my globe in the glam dresser. I still love and respect astro but its nothing but a full time copied better whm with far better healing tools but its core power(cards) is garbage.

[Rilifane]

Thats what am saying over 1 million times stormblood astro was perfect, it was a busy class but paid off in many ways, shadow bringers + Ew worsen the cards and make you do excess things for lil to no award, really whats so nice about some mere 3% 5% buff , sure its nice lady and lord got back their storm blood effects with better potency heal and damage but guess what remember it they was given 8% buff or 6% so we only got cheated more lol. The min I was able to log into EW I ran straight to grab sage and drop my globe in the glam dresser. I still love and respect astro but its nothing but a full time copied better whm with far better healing tools but its core power(cards) is garbage.

That's the thing: it wasn't. And that is not on the player, that is on SE.
They made utility cards that are situationally good compete for the same resource as dps cards that are always good and then made a shocked pikachu face when players fished for dps gain in a game that is so obscenely focused on moar deeps by their own design. And instead of improving that system to fit the game they designed, they deleted it and made it all balance.

You can't have utility compete for the same resource as dps if you want it to get used consistently and not just in some crazy early prog niche cases. Period. If any of them actually played healer more than every now and then in a dungeon they'd know that perfectly well. You can have utility. It just can't be on the same cooldown or utility will feel bad 90% of the time because you know deep down that it didn't make a difference while dps would have. And no system should low-key force you to intentionally play bad for more fun.