Astrologian: what is your understanding about it?

[Kissune]

Thats all well and good. But you barely touched ast 2, which is argueably when healing as ast was at it's best this expansion and needing to use every ogcd you had. You didn't touch it t3. You have no logs for any expansion besides Endwalker except for the 24mans in shb. All that is to say is I understand why you like ast so much the way it is. You really don't know any other ast. Shb isn't that far from what we have today if you're just leveling it. if you took out astrodyne and the 2minute meta it'd be nearly identical to diurnal sect. You should give new ast a try and I'd also tell you to anticipate big ast changes like this for every expansion until they start building on ast. And just remember when you're sad about an ast change that some of us lost shield-healer ast completely and will probably never get it back. These things happen, we live with it and find new parts of the job to enjoy.

I mean if you just wanna be a doormat be my guest. For what its worth, I liked healing in abyssos, both as SCH and AST. Natural alignment is quite possibly one of my favourite mechanics bc it's the only time in recent memory where single target heals in uptime were necessary on top of the rapid raidwides. P8Sp2 was peak design but soooo many people complained it was 'too hard' and Squenix overcorrected, as usual. I didn't touch it in ana but lets be real the only healcheck there was harrowing hell (which I'd have all my CDs for so I'd probably only gcd heal once to proc neutral and horoscope, use CU and oppo, Idk what star timing would be but almost definitely using it there, and macro if I had it. Yknow why? Bc before and after that there was no damage.) and p12sp1 limit cut was also a lot of damage, but it was in downtime so who cares? It's not like AST has ever had mana issues in all of EW, gcd spam away. Most of the fights just had spread out raidwides that they didn't bother to put a bleed on. Every tankbuster was invulned or so overmitted that it didn't matter, tank autos were a joke, and single target damage on other people in ana was so pathetic it was barely worth the ED.

I'm going to give new AST a try, I get all jobs to max level anyways, and I'll probably drag it into criterion considering I won't be healing the first tier, bc my gf is a white mage one trick and I'm finally raiding with her. But I don't see how I could possibly enjoy the class losing the two biggest things I loved about it, only to be replaced with this sad, pathetic excuse of a card 'system' and a fancy new divination follow up. I miss nocturnal sect too, dude. And I don't see why you saying 'I don't know any other AST' is like some sort of gotcha on me when these cards don't even play or function remotely like stormblood cards either. I'd be fine with stormblood cards, even if they weren't my preference bc at least they'd feel familiar and I'd have reactive gameplay that requires me to think about what I'm doing with my cards as I draw them. I don't actually want this class to stay the same, I wasn't 100% happy with EW AST either. But the answer is not and will never be 'completely rip anything of substance from the class'.

I'm getting rate limited now so I am forced to stop for now but I seriously think you misunderstand what I am actually asking for here. I am not asking for more of EW AST. I am asking for more of AST, not white mage with a poor mans aetherflow with tarot cards painted on it. Whether it be utility cards, dps cards, a mix, neither, I don't care. I have a preference to DPS cards but what I want is the playstyle of responding to draws. If you think that aspect died in ShB or EW idk what to tell you aside from 'that's simply not true' and 'I got news for you about what no RNG means'. That playstyle won't exist, and so AST is no longer the class for me. I didn't play in stormblood, ya got me, but I know if I did you could bet your ass I'd be an astrologian main.

EDIT: also saying 'you have no logs for any expansion besides Endwalker' as some sort of gotcha is pretty rich coming from someone with no logs in anything lmao. For all I know you haven't done a single fight in your life, and I know from your gear that you didn't touch AST in t3 either, so don't try and pull that card.