When they will buff AST?

[Crater]

How can you say this? Lightspeed is now a great cooldown, there is no reason not to use it, Ewer and Spire are both useful under almost all circumstances.
RR changes dont have a huge impact, and spread/shuffle is a pure awesome buff.
CU..well lets say changes couldve been better, potency buff wasnt exactly the issue with the skill.

It's on a 150 second cooldown, and lasts for 10 seconds. Inside those ten seconds, your GCD recast time is unchanged, meaning that you can cast four, maybe five spells, and now save 25% MP on them. That's equivalent to a single free cure, every two and a half minutes. It used to be a cooldown so bad that using it actually actively made you a worse healer. Their idea to improve it is to make it technically beneficial instead of detrimental, in a way that doesn't really matter.

AST still has no options for increasing their healing output, the way that a WHM can use Divine Seal or Presence of Mind, or a SCH can use Rouse and blow through Aetherflow stacks.


The card changes are nice - now there's only one terrible card, where before there were three - but in addition to buffing the cards that sucked, they needed to make some changes to the underlying mechanic of drawing and playing cards. A 30s reduction on Shuffle does not begin to scratch the surface of that.


AST was in need of the sort of overhaul that Warrior got going from 2.0 to 2.1. Instead they got a little band-aid fix that repaired maybe 2/3 of the skills that were actively terrible, while leaving the others just as bad as they were to begin with, and without adding anything that would actually make it into a strong class.