Astrologian "BUFFS"

[loreleidiangelo]

Spire is 30/tic (buffed for the most part). Testing Ewer now.

Edit: Ewer is a refresh potency of 30. 265 per tic at 60.

This is...slightly concerning. I've been against swapping the reductions for refreshes out of fear of eliminating the BRD/MCH raid niche, and these refreshes seem pretty potent, considering their uptime.

I guess the good thing is that since most of their stuff is still borked no one will replace BRD/MCH with an AST because nobody wants to raid with an AST. LOL. I had been waiting for changes to make my final decision, but if this is the only bone we got then it's official - I'm going back to SMN for Alex Savage. Nocturnal Sect still being unusable is what did it for me; my cohealer is a WHM.

[Arcana]

Spire is 30/tic (buffed for the most part). Testing Ewer now.

Edit: Ewer is a refresh potency of 30. 265 per tic at 60.

wow... nice MP regen. I supose that is the main reason SE changed the RR effect of spire/ewer, because a powerful card should be too the most powerful royal road effect in 8 man party.

[Eudyptes]

because a powerful card should be too the most powerful royal road effect in 8 man party.

Expanded isn't the most powerful. At least not when realtime RNG is factored in. I mean sure, a perfect run of getting a spear/arrow for RR then an arrow/balance was the best, but the moment you got anything else that expanded RR was going to do more harm than good. Though at least it won't be as bad with spire/ewer being refresh now. I think it would still be better to hit people individually with ewer/spire as needed in most situations though.

[Miiu]

Yesterday I was really wondering if I my static would want me as sch or ast for savage depending on the buff AST gets. Well not wondering anymore. Kinda disappointed.

Well at least they changed tp/mp reduction to refresh effects and reduced the shuffle cooldown (but well we probably can still draw the same card twice) At least I'd have hope for a small draw cd reduction too.
Other than I really hope this wasn't all and they're just waiting for some savage playerfeedback.

[Nague]

lightspeed isnt a healing cooldown you geniuses.


All it does now is give 1 free spell every time it gets off cooldown, assuming you chaincast during the duration.

[Xenohart]

Pretty disappointing. Glad I leveled up White Mage too. The utility on the cards is nice. But when it comes to bleeding edge progression, you bring classes that can hold their given role. AST is not the appropriate healer for a Savage raid at this point.

[Akyio]

A little thing about Lightspeed: Using celestial opposition extends the duration by 5 additional seconds. It used to before also, but now you can potentially cast lightspeed, then instant aspected helios + CO and you get additional 2 spells(possibly?) to cast instantly under light speed. In some situations its very powerful, like in large AoE's running around and casting helios or benefic II on people

[Vlady]

A little thing about Lightspeed: Using celestial opposition extends the duration by 5 additional seconds. It used to before also, but now you can potentially cast lightspeed, then instant aspected helios + CO and you get additional 2 spells(possibly?) to cast instantly under light speed. In some situations its very powerful, like in large AoE's running around and casting helios or benefic II on people

Lightspeed is now very potent and the complaint spam threads should stop once people get in savage and see that astrologian is as strong as the other healers. Especially since our cooldowns are now on par.

[KarstenS]

Lightspeed is now very potent and the complaint spam threads should stop once people get in savage and see that astrologian is as strong as the other healers.

The decicion will not be made by "Is the AST able tho heal that fights". I think we all are on par: it can.

The decicion for progression will be made by "which healer combination will provide the most raid DPS".

Sidenote: The more one healer can solo heal, the more the other healer can DPS. Don't forget Selene as a mini healer (not affected by cleric stance) and DPS buff totem.

And forget the word "Emergencyskill". A serious healer use all skills and CDs as regular skills.

[mp-please]

And forget the word "Emergencyskill". A serious healer use all skills and CDs as regular skills.

That's the thing, people are too focused on the emergency skill button function rather than thinking of using lightspeed as a mp saving resource.

Yeah, cuz Ewer and passive mp regen don't stack I forgot...

They do stack, so using ewer by itself is like having double passive mp regen for 15-30 seconds.