Astrologian Speculations! How will it fit in?

[LycorisSelunis]

Same logic with paladin's Sword Oath and Shield Oath :P

You don't learn those very early, and you learn them at different levels so level syncing affects that. Possible then that astro works similarly you think? Perhaps unable to use nocturnal sect at certain level sync? The thought hadn't occurred to me before now I am curious!

Friday.........cannot wait till Friday to play this.....

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Thing is that the new jobs don't start at level 1, they start at 30 instead.

Y: So there will be some updates to the battle system. Three new jobs: dark knight, astrologian, machinist. They will all be leveled starting at 30. When you enter Ishgard there’s a place where you can receive the first job quests. But, feel free to do some of the story before zerg leveling the new jobs. You have plenty of time. *

So there's the possibility you'll have both stances at level 30.

As for the stances, they provide additional effects on certain spells, rather than affecting it's potency. Whether you cast a healing spell with either stances or no stances, the initial healing will be the same. So it is very possible you can't use a specific stance (or both) when level synced, but it shouldn't cause too much inconvenience. I mean, if you're level synced down to a point you can't use stances, nothing will truck your party that hard. The potency of each spell and the finer details of the effects from the stances are still unknown. According to some document** they're comparable with Cure and Cure II

* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...eview?sle=true
** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...lI1VGvrnl0/pub

[Blueyes]

A look at Astrologian gameplay! The video is in German so I don't know what's being said, but we get to see some actions in use that we haven't seen before. Looks like it was actually uploaded a few days ago, but it hasn't been shown in this thread yet.

One thing I notice is that the action that's been speculated to be Lightspeed (the one shown in the blog image) may actually be something entirely different. In that video we see it used early on, but the next spell that followed still had a cast time. That would suggest that the two actions that followed the use of that action in the preview video (speculated to be Disable and Celestial Stasis) are instant cast by default.

I'm actually having trouble figuring out what's instant and what isn't. Like in the beginning we see a DoT attack go off instantly, but then later we see it used again with a cast time. Or an ability would be used followed by two instant actions, but then later that same ability is used again followed by spells with a cast time. There are like two or three different spells shown both with and without a cast time at different points in the video and I can't pin down a correlation in ability use that causes those effects unless there's more than one instant proc effect going on. (Initial "star" attack proc > instant DoT attack.)

Editing this a lot as I make more observations. Taking a guess that what we see at 4:47 is Lightspeed.

[LycorisSelunis]

Wow, It looks like he uses ring of fate/wheel of fate and is animation locked for a fair bit. At least I think that was what I saw....at 8:53

If that it the case it is disappointing because its too short to be much use (especially if less potent than sacred soil/asylum) but you're stuck from not casting for too long. I hope that isn't how it works.

[Blueyes]

Anddd the video was removed. So sad. I suppose it isn't all that bad when early access is less than a week away. Now to just keep the tab open for as long as possible.