Astro in savage

[Aurorarose51]

Im thinking tomorrow night trying whm/ast combo out (if my partner is willing, i already felt bad pushing him out of sch when we switched). But a1 reeeaaalllly needs strong aoe heals. Im hoping for more ast changes soon, because so far ast is still at a disadvantage in healing potencies and such. I mean really, sch dps'd entire time on faust whith whm solo heals, no problem... but ast, benefic II spam two tanks, lightspeeding, synastry, etc felt like swimming with my head barely above the water. I dunno, the other ast in my fc made it to 2% on main boss so far, maybe im still doing something wrong, or they have whm... im not sure on that..

[Parawill]

Im thinking tomorrow night trying whm/ast combo out (if my partner is willing, i already felt bad pushing him out of sch when we switched). But a1 reeeaaalllly needs strong aoe heals. Im hoping for more ast changes soon, because so far ast is still at a disadvantage in healing potencies and such. I mean really, sch dps'd entire time on faust whith whm solo heals, no problem... but ast, benefic II spam two tanks, lightspeeding, synastry, etc felt like swimming with my head barely above the water. I dunno, the other ast in my fc made it to 2% on main boss so far, maybe im still doing something wrong, or they have whm... im not sure on that..

Since I really only managed to get to Oppressor on WHM for one lockout (since I did AST for the previous one and was walled by Faust), but I think a lot of it has to do with figuring the downtime for unavoidable raid damage. When I was healing on WHM, I felt like there was some areas where I could've just done a Medica II into a Medica and let Medica & SCH Whispering Dawn & Fairy Heals top people off.

For double preys and hypercharge, I've yet to get past the first jump (since our BLM was having the worst connection issues ever. R.I.P to his DPS) but I think tanks may have to stack mitigation buffs with SCH Adlo and whatnots. I know that you need to keep them above 80% however :/ Double preys though, I think I'm going to talk to my SCH to see if they can help assist me with pre-shielding as even on WHM, I need Cure II and Tetragrammaton/Benediction & Regens on both prey'd players if I'm ever in the situation where I'm solo healing the preys. x_x

[Aurorarose51]

For double preys, both targets got adlo'd and stoneskined, then we each just heal one. Small cures is enough. With ast, most of the time we couldnt get people topped up after raid damage before preys started, and me using SS on ast killed my mp plus aoe heals. The tank busters need to be havily mitigates, e4e and viruses was enough from sch/smn, and whatever the tank cds are (i didint pay attention to my groups discussion about what cds to use, i just heal). But with those, its not so hard to heal them back up. Disable should work here too, too bad i cant e4e........ preys will probably still be more difficult with whm/ast with less shields (assuming stacking regens). Dont try to solo heal those >.< its too much, just communicate who youre focusing and keep and eye on your designsted tank : / working for us like that

[Parawill]

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Thanks! I only was solo healing since our Scholar processes information differently then I. She focuses on mechanics over healing, but then adjusts once she's more comfortable. I guess what my group needs is more familiarity with the fight and well... head bashing into the wall of progression!

Thanks for the tips, Kiki! Hopefully my raid will be able to get through with SCH & AST. I'm going to push myself to see if it's possible ;D Though, do tell about your AST friend though. Was it AST & WHM or AST & SCH for their party make-up. I'm quite interested ^-^