Random Cards Were The Only Reason AST Felt Good/Different

[Connor]

So in other words: Randomness will naturally come with being benched for high-end prog. It has to. Otherwise it's meaningless randomness (we had this, it's called Astrodyne).

Uhh, hasn't Astrologian/Scholar been the prime healer comp in ever single raid since forever though? The randomness certainly didn’t bother them then.

It’s also worth mentioning frankly I don’t see the value in balancing content around literally the very top 0.1% of players doing cutting edge high end progression in ultimate. Otherwise you literally get the jobs we have now, and people aren’t exactly happy with them (because their kits are designed for the 0.1% prog content which makes them extremely boring and disproportionate in strength and value in any other content).

Additionally Time Dilation and Celestial Opposition always affected any buffs applied by the Astrologian. Aspected Benefic, CU, Exaltation, cards, shields, would all be increased (assuming it was the same skill as Heavensward)