Astrologian tips and tricks

[Yumi_umi]

Here's an enhanced ewer for youuu, here's and enhanced balance for you oh maybe u need some time dialation with that. Here's some enhanced bole for uuu, everyone gets an enhanced card! Woooooooooo
Tbh tho u really cant play ast by the book like some dps class doing its rotation.
U gotta assess the party, the individuals and the fight. And ontop of that is the card rng so u gotta know how to improvise with what u have. No point in holding a card for a whole phase just so u can "prep" for that buster on phase 2. Sure there are guidelines, tho it doesn't mean it'll always be accurate to ur situation.

[Zaj_Quilos]

If you are running out of mana you are probably an Astrologian.

[YuiSasaki]

These are quite useful tips.

Have you considered using Spear on yourself (if needed)? Especially with LA, Synastry & CU it's quite handy.
Also, I'd never RR Arrow (only if Spread is on use/cd and out of fight).
Furthermore I'd specify the usage of The Bole, usually it is not required to activate on a tank in lower level content or expert dungeons, even in Alex normal it's most of the time not necessary. I usually RR it and combine it with a Balance/Arrow+TD.

Also, as opposed to other opinions I'd almost always use Ewer (and Spire but Ewer more often). Exception here would be burst-phases like Bismarck EX while jumping on his back.

[Arragomis]

if you are running out of mana you are probably a bad astrologian

[Yhisa]

hmmm these are just tip and tricks.... and players bashing on it when in reality there just tip and tricks.... there is reasons to what i do and it is effective everytime im healing... if u want to bash my guide go ahead.... because all our cards are situational no matter what anyone says.... u can throw spear on DRG but his skills might already be on cooldown... ninja is the only best class for spear due to low mudra cooldown (20 sec) so u garentee to lower the cooldown either way whilst spear is active on him...... or u can use it on tanks b4 tank busters......yeah u can spread bole if u want to but i just throw it on the tank always 10% may be nothing but it helps a tinybit..... and enhance... is only 5% extra ur balance will do 15% damage for 15sec.... when u could do double duration which is 10% for double time which is like using 2 balance cards on 1 player so ..... even my summoner i use this on prefure double time due to it gives him more room to line up all his cooldowns to do alot of dps.... if u doing enhance ur dps only got a small window to deal damage..... time dilation is good but require thought b4 using it.. i have use it on ewer, spire, balance, arrow to aline with the situation at hand

Healer is low ewer + time will help his mp
Bard got no mp Ewer+ time will help his mp so he can use Foe again
Summoner have raised a dead member ewer will help him with his mp

spire and ewer r really good cards.. u basically a bard/mech but without the dps lost
Bole is ok to throw on tanks it just helps but only a tiny bit
Spear is good for ninja or to throw on tanks b4 tank buster hits
Balance... arrow ..... is situational and require u to know ur dps

Spread is for holding card which u need in my case it is always balance and spear
Royal Road i always pick double time and enhance (ewer/spire only)

i run with 1drk 1war 1bard 1ast 1whm 2blm 1smn this is my raid set up so u can understand why i use my cards like i do sometimes out blm want to switch to his ninja but this is my raid set up and how i use my cards.... others have there own opinion how they use there but do not bash how i use my cards

Ohh i forgot to mention..... U CAN CLICK OFF UR CARD BUFF .... this will get draw cooldown back faster instead of waiting for it to fall off i do this alot as im using draw on cooldown to bang out cards as fast as i can any card that i draw and dont need i click the buff off so draw can come back up faster i normally do this

use draw on cooldown
Spread card im setting up for
Royal Road cards i need for my Spread card
Use/remove cards depending on the situation

i use shuffle alot so it is nearly always on cooldown as im always preparing and using my cards... i actually set my HUD so i can see my draw cooldown and is always using it... any cards i dont need i click the buff away and never use royal road to remove the card (see alot of AST doing this mistake)

i rarely run out of MP the only time i run out of MP is when im going Gun hoe in cleric or there is LARGE damage going out other then this i dont have issues.... however i do feel like i need 1-2 cooldowns to increase my own healing

[NovaLevossida]

Following a guide on what to give to who is pointless considering you need to think on the fly and adapt to the current situation. That's what's going to set apart between the good Asto's and the mediocre.

I follow this logic. I take into account the player's job but I also take into account how well they're playing. A bad DPS in Duty Finder isn't going to get the card; it'll go to the good DPS.

[Vlady]

Here's an enhanced ewer for youuu, here's and enhanced balance for you oh maybe u need some time dialation with that. Here's some enhanced bole for uuu, everyone gets an enhanced card! Woooooooooo
Tbh tho u really cant play ast by the book like some dps class doing its rotation.
U gotta assess the party, the individuals and the fight. And ontop of that is the card rng so u gotta know how to improvise with what u have. No point in holding a card for a whole phase just so u can "prep" for that buster on phase 2. Sure there are guidelines, tho it doesn't mean it'll always be accurate to ur situation.

Shh shh. Astrologian's are easy to learn jobs. People may accidentally learn how powerful they trully are in the hands of a master and how difficult it can be to master proper use of cards.

[Vihalo]

Shh shh. Astrologian's are easy to learn jobs. People may accidentally learn how powerful they trully are in the hands of a master and how difficult it can be to master proper use of cards.

The basic Healing Tools of Astrologian are mainly just copy's of whitemages skills. And the cards are not that complicated at all. So AST is not a difficult puzzle that one solves and becomes a master suddenly.