Astrologian Speculations! How will it fit in?

[Khalette]

but the whm already has some nice HoTs AND aoe heal c.c,,

I agree, but I'm talking about 2-3 HoTs instead of one. One that can be "released" and heal for full for emergency situations. A rolling, stacking HoT, and a casted single target light heal that adds a HoT. There's just room to wiggle, and you're right, WHM has amazing AoE's -- so if their one HoT spell doesn't step up as much as other healing spells, they'll take the AoE spot, while SCH will stick with shield stereotype, and AST becomes the HoT healer.

Just my thoughts, and I think it'll make a nice trilogy to an already great duo.

I also think there's a way to make the Esuna an interesting class type:
SCH - Removes all debuffs on one target 30 second cd
WHM - Removes one debuff from each person in party 1 min cd
AST - Removes a debuff every 5 seconds for 30 seconds, 1.5 min cd

[Jacost]

Considering the new lore about how Astros can alter fate, maybe they will give the party evasion buffs? It's hard to think of something else that mechanically reflects the idea of "this hit wasn't destined to kill you".

[KarstenS]

Considering the new lore about how Astros can alter fate, maybe they will give the party evasion buffs? It's hard to think of something else that mechanically reflects the idea of "this hit wasn't destined to kill you".

When I look how useless parry is in FCoB, that would be not a good idea.

[Seraphyel]

Considering the new lore about how Astros can alter fate, maybe they will give the party evasion buffs? It's hard to think of something else that mechanically reflects the idea of "this hit wasn't destined to kill you".

Shields would have been the best thing for Astros regarding that lore but Scholars have shields...

I don't know what other types of healing are there besides the usual ones like:

* HoT-Healer
* Shield-Healer
* AoE-Healer
* ST-Healer

Whitemage has AoE, ST and Hots, Scholar has Shields - not that much left for Astro right now.

[Rgbg]

Whatever it does, I have all the Card Captor Sakura phrases ready for when I'll pull out my looking orb for the first time as an Astrolosomething. SHOURAI XD I don't care how much hate I will get for my macros, from the looks of it, this job is calling for cheezy macros

[Yumi_umi]

SE better be prepared for a lot of threads saying tht AST has an identity crisis.
Its like every aspect of a healer is taken either by whm or sch.
Bard already covers the other buffs. Whms have the aoe/ burst heals. Schs have the shields, pets and dots covered. So what does that leave ast?

[Cynfael]

SE better be prepared for a lot of threads saying tht AST has an identity crisis.
Its like every aspect of a healer is taken either by whm or sch.
Bard already covers the other buffs. Whms have the aoe/ burst heals. Schs have the shields, pets and dots covered. So what does that leave ast?

Healing and mitigation aside, there is still room for a true buffing class. Bards in this game don't really qualify as such.

[Yumi_umi]

Healing and mitigation aside, there is still room for a true buffing class. Bards in this game don't really qualify as such.

Then whats the point of bringing a bard then if that happens.
Also i thought yoshi was going to change bard ( so chances r it'll be either a hit or miss scenario )
Why bring X when Y can do it better and provide some dps etc.

[Cynfael]

Then whats the point of bringing a bard then if that happens.
Also i thought yoshi was going to change bard ( so chances r it'll be either a hit or miss scenario )
Why bring X when Y can do it better and provide some dps etc.

Because you give them buffs that BRDs don't have.

[Tint]

the whm has shields too ^^ nobody seems to notice that, probably because it's always there - but i'm pretty sure you will miss the 15% mdef buff from whm >.>