WOOT! They listened!!!! (AST Buffs)

[GeekMatt]

Happy with the changes, but I'm probably the only one who'll miss the old Ewer and Spire. We were the only ones capable of helping out those DRK, now they're all lonesome and whatnot--I would have preferred an increase in potency. It's true that it didn't do anything once you were out of mana, but that just meant it required more clever use. In any case, not a huge deal.

The buff to CO is.. Idk, I don't like regen bubble for AST or WHM, shielding bubble seems more practical. And a buff to the Diurnal stance just seems silly when it's already so heavily preferred over Nocturnal. I've been using both, because there are times when shielding is just more appropriate to regen but at the end of the day there's a clear advantage to Diurnal. Please buff Noct! Preferably in a unique/Astrologian-y way such as having the shields somehow interact with the RR buffs for increased duration or potency (and just ignore the AoE thing). Lightspeed I think got the biggest buff, its pretty fantastic and I've made use of it quite a bit today.

[zuzu-bq]

Astrologian buffs are really nice. Seems like what devs thought for Collective Unconsciousness is fast activation and deactivation. I'm not sure about royal road changes yet. Wasn't a buff, just a change. While the AoE is nice, it can be really bad if you use wrong. I think that good ASTs will do much more and bad ASTs will do even less.

[RichardButte]

Happy with the changes, but I'm probably the only one who'll miss the old Ewer and Spire. We were the only ones capable of helping out those DRK, now they're all lonesome and whatnot--I would have preferred an increase in potency. It's true that it didn't do anything once you were out of mana, but that just meant it required more clever use. In any case, not a huge deal.

Like I said, it makes the cards more versatile in that we can choose to use them to help someone recover from a recent tight spot (ie tank having to spam to regain aggro, healer having to spam to prevent a wipe). We can recover AFTER the disaster has happened instead of needing to throw the buff on them as soon as the disaster started, which makes these cards massively less RNG dependent.

The buff to CO is.. Idk, I don't like regen bubble for AST or WHM, shielding bubble seems more practical. And a buff to the Diurnal stance just seems silly when it's already so heavily preferred over Nocturnal. I've been using both, because there are times when shielding is just more appropriate to regen but at the end of the day there's a clear advantage to Diurnal. Please buff Noct! Preferably in a unique/Astrologian-y way such as having the shields somehow interact with the RR buffs for increased duration or potency (and just ignore the AoE thing). Lightspeed I think got the biggest buff, its pretty fantastic and I've made use of it quite a bit today.

I feel like the 18 seconds of 150 potency cure (and now it's 200, whoa...) was WAY better than a 10% reduction bubble, so long as no one was going to die without the 10% reduc.

Having to stand there and channel it means that the damage reduc should be closer to 30%, considering a SCH can toss out their bubble and then proceed to AoE shield the party and Sacred Soil is only 3 seconds less. :\