Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I've refrained from commenting in these threads, because I really just want them to be collections of what people think, but I really want to ask about this one.

How do you find those abilities uninteresting?
Not the same person but here's why I personally don't:

Celestial Intersection stopped being interesting when Nocturnal Sect was removed. Its a shield now. Hooray. It doesn't interact with any other part of AST's kit (Neutral/Synastry) and got straight up replaced by a better and more thematic version of itself in EW (Exaltation). I personally would not mind for its removal. Its quite literally Divine Bension now. I'd rather it not be.

Neutral Sect not only invalidates AST lore (having to chose between each Sect as befits the job by combining the two) they also didn't think to make it work on the oGCDs that Nocturnal Sect changed once the sect was removed. Nocturnal worked on Celestial Intersection by making it a HoT instead of a shield (since all your buttons would be shields). Celestial Opposition would also be a shield. Collective Unconciousness also worked differently but the differences were so miniscule to me that it felt unchanged (it'd have made sense if Diurnal was HoT only and Noct was Mit only but CU ended up having both in both stances so... ???) And yet Neutral doesn't work in this way. Neutral I'm just infuriated by. Of the abilities I'd remove from AST in a heart beat this is first in line after Undraw and Astrodyne. I'd rather have a stance dancer healer than this cop out of an ability.


I want to like Horoscope but it feels like a wasted slot on my bars. I can run most content without it. Anything I would use it for Macrocosmos, Earthly Star, Collective and Opposition are right there. I'd find the skill more interesting if, like Synastry, it worked with more than just 2 buttons on my kit that I rarely use outside this one instance.

Exaltation I like, but I can see why it feels redundant (see Celestial Intersection). We don't need both. And of the two, I'd rather have this one (please for the love of Nymeia keep it at 60 seconds and no charges).