AST Ideas

[Starbirth]

AST is a weak job. Here's some ideas to hopefully remedy that.

Benefic -> 400 Pot

- Srsly why is this 380 when Physick and Cure are 400?
- Change the 15% mechanic to 15% chance next Benefic II will have 100% critical chance.

Light Speed -> Lets wait and see what SE does.

Spread -> Can use out of Combat, Change to keep the card in spread until shuffled back into deck. The card in the spread shares CD with Spread(40s). Reduce Spread CD to 40s.

- There was no need to make this only in combat. Apparently SE is thinking about reversing this.
- Holding onto the card of your choice until you remove it with shuffle gives you a certain play style with each card and makes the rng feel less punishing

Shuffle -> Shuffle drawn card back into the deck, if no card is drawn then shuffle your spread back into your deck. Reduce CD to 60s.




Side Notes

- Flame away.
- Will add more ideas later
- Fixed wording on Benefic notes.
- After some thought deleted ideas to Light Speed, Aspected Benefic and Ewer/Spire.
- Added rehaul ideas to the card system.

[loreleidiangelo]

Aspected Benefic is already 250 potency in Nocturnal Sect; if you buff Diurnal Aspected it will just become the Astrologian go-to Sect more than it already is, so if you buffed Diurnal Aspected than Nocturnal Aspected would need a LOT of love too.

The potency on regular Benefic is fine, I think; a guaranteed critical proc would certainly give ASTs more healing/speed run oomph with Benefic II (though overheal on AST would be crazy).

I'd prefer to keep the refreshes away from AST, tbh. Plenty of other jobs have TP restores and don't want to step on BRD/MCH toes any further, imo. Up the reductions on both to make them "feel" more useful, maybe, but keep their basic function the same.

[Starbirth]

Aspected Benefic is already 250 potency in Nocturnal Sect; if you buff Diurnal Aspected it will just become the Astrologian go-to Sect more than it already is, so if you buffed Diurnal Aspected than Nocturnal Aspected would need a LOT of love too.

I feel like this skill is missing something. Could be because the shield is lacking though.

The potency on regular Benefic is fine, I think; a guaranteed critical proc would certainly give ASTs more healing/speed run oomph with Benefic II (though overheal on AST would be crazy).

The 380 bugs the crap out of me. Such OCD (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I'd prefer to keep the refreshes away from AST, tbh. Plenty of other jobs have TP restores and don't want to step on BRD/MCH toes any further, imo. Up the reductions on both to make them "feel" more useful, maybe, but keep their basic function the same.

I could see increasing the effect.

[Akyio]

All those changes wouldnt do much still. The whole class is quite broken, most abilities need from tiny adjustments to complete rework(=collective consciousness). Also the mana issue is horrendous as soon as someone does some mistakes, due to lag or just not avoiding aoe time by time, im not even talking about ressing someone.
The whole card system is too random and not rewarding even in the best combination. For example 5% dmg buff for 8 people for 15 seconds sounds okay, but in reality with all aoes around and everything that's happening very rarely all those 15 seconds will be used to deal damage, most of the time with people scattered around you wont even be able to put that tiny buff on entire team of 8 people, so if you turn to cleric stance and throw combust + combust II you are basically doing already more damage than your whole level 30-45 skills set combination that you shuffled and saved and waited for, in the right moment to use.

[Roxas_Andrade]

IMO, AST needs an AOE before level 50. Ok, everyone who wanted to level AST must've leveled it so s/he has Gravity, but every class has a DOT, an AOE, a support skill, an attack skill before 50. So rearranging skills should not be a bad idea.

[Elysaine]

IMO, AST needs an AOE before level 50. Ok, everyone who wanted to level AST must've leveled it so s/he has Gravity, but every class has a DOT, an AOE, a support skill, an attack skill before 50. So rearranging skills should not be a bad idea.

I agree. If you want to have an AOE attack as AST before level 54, there is only one option available to you. Crossclassing Blizzard 2 from the Thaumaturge. Whitemages get their Holy 9 levels earlier, and they can cast it without having to target an enemy as well.

[Starbirth]

I personally feel Benefic should be on par with Cure and Physick and if that were to happen I would be totally fine if they didn't touch other potency's for AST.

The rng for the card system seems to be a major factor for the AST feeling mediocre in the utility department. Sadly there isn't a whole lot that can be done directly to Draw besides a CD reduction. Besides that I think Royal Road is the skill to look at to solve this since it adds more to that chaotic feel for the AST card system and I personally dislike it in its current form.

My idea for Royal Road is to make it have effects for the sects and not burn cards in order to gain subpar boosts to them.

[RiisWolf]

IMO, AST needs an AOE before level 50. Ok, everyone who wanted to level AST must've leveled it so s/he has Gravity, but every class has a DOT, an AOE, a support skill, an attack skill before 50. So rearranging skills should not be a bad idea.

It's called Blizzard 2.

[LycorisSelunis]

It's called Blizzard 2.

Don't....even....

in Dzemael Darkhold a whm can holy or a sch can dot>bane. we can...dot each target individually? People running this crap are used to pulling large amounts of junk and having EVERYONE, healers included, burn it down. WTF is even the potency on blizz2?

[Daralii]

Don't....even....

in Dzemael Darkhold a whm can holy or a sch can dot>bane. we can...dot each target individually? People running this crap are used to pulling large amounts of junk and having EVERYONE, healers included, burn it down. WTF is even the potency on blizz2?

50, I think? It's really only useful for the bind.