Astrologian is getting a 2nd charge of Lightspeed

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This is completely wrong. Astro has more buttons to press in DT than in EW (apm is 1.333 higher in DT if you use buttons correctly). THe only loss is how many malefics you cast because of astrodyne's haste being gone. But the coming changes are even overturning that with more draws and plays and lightspeeds. What you say is just not true. The cards haven't been lessened either, they have way more effects than in endwalker. The cards have been expanded, and greatly so. The added heals are only button bloat for players who don't know how to heal properly. Theres no two ways to say it. Do an expert dungeon and you're saying you're not using all your cards? Then you must be over-gcd healing. You're not playing properly if you ignore the cards as they are all incredibly useful. If the actions are useful then they are not bloat. You ignoring your actions does not make them bloat, it just means you are not playing astro correctly. Addign these abilitity did not remove any "skill expression". You're just making that up as nearly all of astro's other abilities function the exact same as they did in ew. The only difference is some dps cards were changed to support actions. Claiming that is a loss of skill expression is incredibly short-sighted.

It seems to me like you lack an understanding of astrologian and how it works, has worked in the past and how it works currently all for the sake of astrodyne and more dps cards. But it's clear someone participating in the healer strike wouldn't have an understanding of how healers work I suppose. It's like that interview with Xenos where the healer strikes admitted they haven't been playing healers in years and yet they still are demanding healers be a certain way. It's asinine just like your views on astro. Just misplaced really.

As per your comments on FFXIV not being the best in the market. They have the highest sub numbers CURRENTLY than any other mmo on the market. They are also the only mmo where the producer/director actively interacts with the community on a player-to-player level. He takes feedback better than any other mmo out there. Nobody can compete with yoshi p and this dev team in that regard. This is just a fact and any body who has been playing mmo's a long time can attest to that. After all it's one of the reasons ffxiv got popular again in the first place and he hasn't dwindled on it since.