Is Selene all that?

[fanservice]

One more thing.

No she isn't, does she help? Yes.

But is it earth shattering? Oh hell no. I have tried it against Astrologian rigorously and AST buffs are significantly more helpful.

IE: Reduce TP cost on an AOE fight.
IE: Reduce mana cost on a blackmage.
*These two above add A LOT more than just 5% damage buff or 3% faster abilities that Selene does. Allowing an AoE like MCH or DRG to spam their highest TP cost abilities dramatically increases their damage output by even quadruple cause they get so many more abilities off.
IE: The balanced the entire team, is more noticeable than Selene's buff. Or put it on highest current DPS and that I feel is more noticeable. Selene's buff is ignorable on yourself as a healer in any challenging light-party situation and so "party wide" is overrated.

AST buffs have the problem of consistency and uptime. Ideally you want expanded royal road balance/arrow in 8 mans, but:

1 - RNG
2 - Takes at least 2 draws to do that
3 - lasts 15 seconds

That is why most will say selene > AST buffs.

This will only be more pronounced and obvious when astrologian gets the buffs that were proposed in the live letter yesterday.

We'll see, because they need them.