Thank you for the Astro changes coming in dawntrail!

[Zolvolt]

The continual blaming of casuals is also getting old, even I was salty at them to begin with going into SHB with but ykno what? A lot of the people who want things simplified are also the more hardcore or midcore, the ones pushing content and realise hey x or y is pretty annoying for me. Also a lot of the hardcore pc players are already using a variety of third party tools to make the game easier for them anyway all while crapping on other people for playing poorly. Hilarious considering they are using more crutches to play than the casuals they crap on, one AST enjoyer ik wouldn't even play the job without his macro to play his cards for him, still considers himself better than others. Meanwhile I moved my party ui closer to the middle of my screen to allow for faster swapping between targets during burst for throwing cards. Casuals often don't even leave feedback at all, they play or they don't. Only the more invested players leave the feedback most of the time. They matter just as much as you or I do, much as I miss my positionals on MNK.

This so true oh my lord. Even my friends do this. I've actually heard friends saying "I can do this on any job it should be easy for you!" to people all while streaming ultimates of them using that mini map that shows you where all the mechanics will be, or the the one that puts important debuffs big over the middle of the screen, and also the one with arrows showing where to look or go. It's bananas.

We also have this response from YoshiP regarding healer dps and healing requirements from one of the EW Media Tour interviews

tldr they claim they try to increase healing requirements, but they also don't plan on going so far that the healer has to constantly cast healing spells and keep track of their mp, or else that makes clears too reliant on how good your healer is. Increase in Item Levels as content ages lowers healing requirements too, and it's "inevitable" that leaves healers with less things to do.

I will give Sqaure-enix credit, they absolutely amped up tank busters in endwalker savage compared to shadowbringers. The job I felt like I could cover 95% of them alone was astrologian. *pug scholars can only energy drain it it turns out lol* Unfortunately tank defensives scaled a bit too well, and they are too strong now. If that wasn't there tank busters would've been in a good spot this expansion. The other healer and mp management and stuff, yeah, the mark was definitely not even close there.

DT ast to me feels like the devs are trying to merge SB and ShB Ast but the thing had to give up was rng.

Now if only they could bring back buff manipulation again, like RR and Time Dialation (still stings they are referenced in Ast questline)

This is exactly how I feel about Astro.

And now, i don't need to remind anyone of now. Not in progs but if the team is decent you could solo heal ALOT of fights on reclears. They have increased the healer's heal potency, increased the damage on screw ups, but overall the heal checks ain't that high.
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Do y'all remember how fun it was to heal the end of e12s when it's just destroying the raid constantly? Like your first clear, not farm when the phase got so short it didn't matter. Can we have more of that happening and preferrably not the final mechanic of a fight.