Essential Dignity

[Eraqus]

Aether flow gives u 3 stacks per minute that means that u can use lustrate 3 times in 1 minute. That's math. And because I mailed SCH before AST.

[Rajeme]

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I never said ED is superior to either WHM or SCH, but it's comparable. For 1000 potency every 40s, yeah, it's lower than Lustrate 1800 potency every 60s, but it's comparable. It's also comparable with Tetragrammation 700 potency every 60s. Saying anything like the skill is vastly inferior is just not correct. Remember, it's SE's intention to not make AST's basic heals equal or better than other healers.

Also, it seems my argument from "Essential Dignity doesn't need buff" has been changed to "AST's emergency healing is as good as other healers", which is simply an understatement. In fact, I never said AST doesn't lack emergency heals. If you read my previous posts, I have already pointed out that AST is in need of emergency heals to make it more reliable. Essential dignity, in the end, is still just one skill. Buffing it just for the sake of spamming one single emergency skill is, in my opinion, just unbalance.

Oh, since we are on topic, AST can also use Synastry+Essential Dignity, which can act as a make-shift dual emergency heal, which means you can instantly heal 2 people at the same time, one for 1000 potency and one for 500, which is not even nearly bad.

[Eraqus]

I didn't even read all of ur comment but u can't say that it's 1800 every 60 seconds because it's 600 each 20 seconds. And that's HUGE!

[Rajeme]

I didn't even read all of ur comment but u can't say that it's 1800 every 60 seconds because it's 600 each 20 seconds. And that's HUGE!

I only said that approximately because the 2 skills are pretty different, and also work pretty different from each other. Just like how you stack Aetherflows, I can also stack Synastry for 1000 and 500 potency. And because it works too different so I only took Tetragrammation as the closest example.

Let say it another way, example if you somehow buff Essential Dignity for reducing recast time to 30s, that means the recast time is twice faster than Tetragrammation. And I won't take Benediction into the equation because it has a healthy 5 minutes cooldown from last I saw.

So I will say my conclusion: AST needs another emergency heal, that means they need to tweak something except Essential Dignity, because in my opinion this skill is already great: Good enough for what it is but not too overpowered which can shadow other 2 healers, just like how the developers intended.

[Sidra]

How does it suck? It's instant, costs no resources, and heals a lot - especially on a low hp target. It's a great emergency button a pretty low cooldown. If you're having an emergency more than once every 40 seconds, you are really doing something wrong. And it dungeons its nice you can get an extra gravity in knowing you can come out of Cleric Stance and pop it - and with it's low cooldown it's basically used every pull to help DPS.

Also keep in mind that in Noct - Aspected Benefic is instant cast for a 500 potency worth of HP/shield also a nice skill to help with emergencies.

Sometimes I feel like I am playing a different game than other people. AST isn't perfect - I am not sure it's cards are good enough, and it seems like less has to go wrong before you have MP issues than the other healers. But in general it's healing kit is just fine. Nitpicking good skills seems misguided.

[amihavingfunyet]

Oh, since we are on topic, AST can also use Synastry+Essential Dignity, which can act as a make-shift dual emergency heal, which means you can instantly heal 2 people at the same time, one for 1000 potency and one for 500, which is not even nearly bad.

Only problem, Synastry doesn't work with Essential Dignity. Neither does it with HoT ticks and I'm pretty sure AoE heals don't work either. Feel free to test it.