Things I'm starting to hate on AST

[DarkmoonVael]

I do not understand your issue? I double astro heal A1-A4 without issue all the time. Also have enough mana to keep my 3 dots up along with the utility of our cards which from my own experiences is another 150-170 dps unless you get a unlucky spreak and pull nothing but bole. I easily contribute 200-300 dps from my dots and a malefic cast every now and then along with arrow/balance/spear on my brother who plays a machinist he normally clocks another 150-160 dps through an entire run which is on par with scholar personal dps.

A SCH pulling 150-160 dps is a bad SCH. 800+dps on faust, Oppressors is 500+. A2 is 850+ DPS. A3 is 500+. A4 all depends if as SCH you deal with most mechanics so dps and tanks can focus on boss.

So is the reason that you think AST is so good because the people you are comparing it to are just plain bad at all the healing classes, so they are equally bad at the new class as well as the old 2?

[Hysterior]

A SCH pulling 150-160 dps is a bad SCH. 800+dps on faust, Oppressors is 500+.

A SCH should do 800 on Faust? Please... just.. stop...

[DarkmoonVael]

A SCH should do 800 on Faust? Please... just.. stop...

We are talking about alexander normal here, as you can tell by the quote i am responding to, and the proper use of dissipate to facilitate more dps. In normal you dont do any healing at all as SCH, and yes i have been parsed at that, this is with an entire 1 miss in normal. Also battle voiced foes requiem. And this is a 2 min fight.

So about me stopping...........?

In savage you should expect 360+ dps on faust from sch, depending on how much healing needs to be done, how well your co-healer is doing with healing, how much you miss. It is possible, when completely pushing dps, abusing dissipation to dps rather than heal and making the whm do far more than they should, to get to 500+ on this fight as SCH which also includes bleeding of aoe damage via shadow flare on adds and boss.

[Spoekes]

I do not understand your issue? I double astro heal A1-A4 without issue all the time. Also have enough mana to keep my 3 dots up along with the utility of our cards which from my own experiences is another 150-170 dps unless you get a unlucky spreak and pull nothing but bole. I easily contribute 200-300 dps from my dots and a malefic cast every now and then along with arrow/balance/spear on my brother who plays a machinist he normally clocks another 150-160 dps through an entire run which is on par with scholar personal dps.

This is SO OBVIUOSLY untrue are you not ashamed writing such things?
So your brother must be doing 3k DPS and you are getting balance/arrow on every draw to get him over 150 DPS from your card buffs.

A SCH should do 800 on Faust? Please... just.. stop...

800 DPS on Faust is possible, with a bard, no healing at all and perfect dot uptime, without inflating numbers with Shadowflare and/or bane.
It's surely NOT expected to push 800 Singeltarget DPS, but as a response to someone claming a 150 DPS increase on a machinist if you "git good on cards", it's okay to say it that way I guess.

[VanEinstein]

I felt it appropriate to draw attention to Craters post here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ody-else/page3

The focus is on the cards, but since the cards (support) are at fault for our lack of cooldowns that affect our healing capacity, this is relevant.