Astrologian "BUFFS"

[lordparanoia]

Seriously, Square... you said you had to fix Collective Unconscious AND Celestial Opposition. And you didn't. I'm ok with the other changes, but... WHY?

Lightspeed ・Now reduces MP cost of spells by 25%
・Reduction to magic potency now only affects attack magic.
・Duration has been reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.
The Ewer ・Effect has been changed from MP cost reduction to MP refresh.
・Duration has been reduced from 20 to 15 seconds.
The Spire ・Effect has been changed from TP cost reduction to TP refresh.
・Duration has been reduced from 20 to 15 seconds.
Royal Road ・Arrow and Spear:
Now doubles the duration of the next card drawn.
・Ewer and Spire:
Now reduces the potency of the next card drawn by 50%, and extends the effect to nearby targets.
Spread ・Can now be used outside of combat.
Shuffle ・Recast time reduced from 90 to 60 seconds.
Collective Unconscious ・Potency of the regen effect from Diurnal Sect has been increased from 150 to 200.

[Damianqq]

I'm disappointed.

These changes are good but AST needs more fixes. Like, Nocturnal Sect is pretty damn useless...still.

[lordparanoia]

We are still very far from the other healers... I really hoped in Celestial Opposition and Collective Unconscious changes. They said they wanted to change them and they didn't.
I'm a bit upset, it's like they made fun of us.

[Alahra]

Lightspeed should be a decent emergency button now. The rest of the changes probably won't have much impact. They're probably waiting to see how AST performs in Savage before further adjustments. Personally, I think I'm going to switch back to SCH for healing, though.

[ArcheDragon]

These are nice changes but they did NOTHING to Nocturnal sect and even gave Diurnal a slight buff. The mana management issues seem to be mostly resolved though with a refresh and the new lightspeed, which is nice. Can somebody explain what changed with Royal Road, because I have a hard time remember what each one of them did before based on names?

I understand that they want to wait for bigger changes, but Nocturnal sect isn't questionably or arguably bad... it is just BAD. There are very rare times where you'd benefit your team more, over the course of an entire fight, by having these weak shields. One: You can't have a SCH at all. Two: It has to be NECESSARY to survive a tank buster.

[Kietsu]

They're probably waiting to see how AST performs in Savage before further adjustments.

And when nobody picks AST for Savage...?

[VitalSuit]

Thank god for the lightspeed change.

They swapped them. Ewer and Spire used to double duration of the next card and Arrow and Spear would make the next card aoe. Now Arrow and Spear double duration and Ewer and Spire will make the aoe. Dunno why they swapped it but I guess since Ewer and Spire are so useful now there's no reason to RR them away.

[lordparanoia]

The Dev Team doesn't love astrologian, that's all.

[Tsunenori]

It's a good start I think. Not wholly perfect, but a good start nonetheless. I want to see how the changes play before making any judgement calls, but most of those buffs are I think along the right lines in affecting the utility of the job rather than potencies. Upping the potency of Collective Unconsciousness unfortunately doesn't really change any of the utilitarian problems with it, but it's not like it's a totally useless ability to begin with (and they've shown they're okay with niche abilities). Very curious about the potency of the refreshes as well, because longevity has been my biggest problem in healing intensive situations. They did exactly what I wanted them to with Lightspeed so that's made me very happy.

Not looking forward to using Royal Road on the wrong cards for a few hours.

[ArcheDragon]

Not looking forward to using Royal Road on the wrong cards for a few hours.

Did they just switch them around to make up for the refresh cards being more powerful now? My brain isn't wrapping itself around this change very well lol. I suppose it might be to make giving the entire party a refresh buff a bit harder since they need two of them now.