Done with AST

[Nasrin]

Yes yes another one of these "oh no AST sux lol plz buff us" threads but I would just like SE to see that there's yet another AST unhappy with their job.

Now don't get me wrong I like the flare of the class, and I can even deal with the RNG cards. But when a WHM can follow a tank into a dungeon where the tank pulls 2+ groups of mobs and be fine, and I will go dry on MP before the mobs come to half and most of the time the tank doesn't even survive that long because I simply do not have the throughput, is rubbish.

So I'll be going back to my WHM with a full healing kit until you fix this poor job you so deem a "healer". I understand we have utility in card's that can do all kind's of cool things. And for other classes, such as BRDs and MCHs that deal a bit less damage because of their utility that's cool. But it simply does not work for a healing class. Just wanted to express my dissatisfaction with a class I was looking forward to playing and not beta testing. Thanks.

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

=( I feel you. Still not giving up on mine but the past 2 fractal runs I've done on AST have been a nightmare mainly because of things not dying fast, dps not evading, low ilvl tank. I've saved the runs but it feels like a struggle, on WHM i could add much more to make the runs faster and less tedious for me. It's making me want to play the job less.... but I am still hanging in there, waiting for the fixes. I have faith in Yoshi and team.

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Edit: nvm, for some reason I swear your AST showed level 52 >.<

[Akyio]

I had yesterday this in neverreap where tank pulled too much and died, i was unable to heal that fast and he died. He acknowledged that AST had some healing issues and will not pull that much. I was pretty sure that if i was SCH he wouldn't have died.

I'm still playing and gearing up, but as Alexander starts i might start to get people complaining. So far not anyone complains, because i know the content that i'm doing and how to handle it even though it's to play as AST is like playing with other 2 healers on "very hard" mode. But as I get closer to full end game content, i'm getting discouraged and looking into other jobs or crafting jobs to pass my time until it's fixed.

what bothers me mostly is that almost every ability that AST has is a weaker copy of WHM/SCH ability - from the dps abilities to heals. And every unique ability that AST has is gimmics that doesn't bring anything meaningful to the party.

[Akyio]

But you aren't even at the level 60 cap?

How can you make a final decision without even experiencing the play at end game?

Because at the end game it gets even worse, AST is pratically unable to do alex savage.

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Because at the end game it gets even worse, AST is pratically unable to do alex savage.

I disagree - its not unable to do anything. It can heal just fine, including savage A1 atleast but the other healers simply have more utility and make it cleaner. It's okay to dislike the playstyle but there is no need for dramatics.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

If you're having mana problems, you could Time Dilate your Luminiferous Aether in order to get 30 sec of refresh (not sure if it's possible, I'm personally only lv31 in the class), and you should make sure you're in Nocturnal Sect when you're only needing to heal the tank. Diurnal Sect is really only good if you're pre-50 or if there's a consistent hp drain on the entire group.

[Nasrin]

Time Dilate is not castable on yourself unfortunately And I don't want to talk about how terrible Nocturnal Sect is and it's amazing 1k absorb shield :3

[Akyio]

If you're having mana problems, you could Time Dilate your Luminiferous Aether in order to get 30 sec of refresh (not sure if it's possible, I'm personally only lv31 in the class), and you should make sure you're in Nocturnal Sect when you're only needing to heal the tank. Diurnal Sect is really only good if you're pre-50 or if there's a consistent hp drain on the entire group.

You can't time dilate yourself, you can only "celestial opposition" yourself to get 5 seconds of extra refresh( i think it gives extra 2 ticks possibly )
also actually nocturnal is not good :/ it's nice, but i never used it ever, unless im in a level 50 trial with a WHM, then i use it for fun otherwise there's a lot of overheal.
later when u get time dilation it's much better to just aspect benefic a tank + buff + time dilate in diurnal, and switch to cleric stance to dps a bit.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

Time Dilate is not castable on yourself unfortunately And I don't want to talk about how terrible Nocturnal Sect is and it's amazing 1k absorb shield :3

That unfortunately makes Time Dilate next to useless. I should add though that Nocturnal sect also increases your healing magic potency by 5% and the absorb shield scales with how much you heal for, which means you're practically doubling the amount that you're healing that target for. There's also Synastry which is great when you need to aoe heal, and you should pretty much be using Lightspeed whenever you need to spam for the lowered MP costs.

Aspected Nocturnal Benefic potency: 262.5 (barrier)
Aspected Nocturnal Helios potency: 147 (aoe barrier)
Nocturnal Benefic potency: 399
Nocturnal Benefic II potency: 651
Nocturnal Helios potency: 304.5 (aoe)
Nocturnal Essential Dignity potency: 420-1050

EDIT: Now that I look at it, they really need to increase the Nocturnal Aspected Helios potency. It's straight up better to use the regular Helios otherwise, especially since you save MP doing so.