Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
No, no, that's a fair question.
Thank you for the reply, appreciate it.

Not trying to cut it short, it does seem you and ASkellington's dislike of some abilities seems to be far less on the abilities themselves being good or bad and more...let's call it frustration?...with what AST was/could be to you. I think you kind of say that here as well. So that makes sense to me. Sort of a "I don't hate you for anything you did personally, I just resent you due to what I associate with you" kind of a thing?

Taurochole heals up front, meaning if a person is at or near full health, the heal isn't as useful. Exaltation reduces damage taken and then heals on the back end. And due specifically to AST's kit, if the target is low health initially, you can weave an Essential Dignity into an Exaltation and first top the person off, then have them survive the hit, then heal on the back end. If you want to go ham, you can also give them an Intersection to top off their health if Dignity didn't and give them a bit more protection for the attack.

I dunno, I guess I take them in the context of the whole kits and Exaltation feels more generally useful to me, though it depends a lot on the specific situation going on.

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But again, not challenging your views, just trying to understand them. I can't imagine them ever giving AST "in combat sect swapping", even if they did return Noct (old AST never had it, either), since then it would just stomp all over other healer Jobs (even more than it already does). So I don't really see Neutral being due to that, and Neutral was added before sects were removed, so I don't think it was due to players complaining about that.