Please Fix Astrologians!

[Selli]

Those PFs just sound like they were because the expansion was still new and people didn't know a lot about astro.

Perhaps.

I never saw a single PF that specifically outcast an AST just because of the party bonus.

You must come from a really nice server, LOL. I see this happen all the time.

I did run into tons of people who had no idea that AST has diurnal sect for regen, though. They just assumed that ast and sch would be competing for galvanize/nocturnal field supremacy.

I've never really had an issue with people not knowing about the Sects. Except maybe in the DF... I do remember doing Low Level Roulette once on my AST and a newbie DPS asked me what class I was 'cause they wanted to have a cool globe too. It was adorable.

Also, people have been clearing savage floors with ast+sch, so I don't think the mind party bonus is absolutely vital for healing. It might help a little, but it should not make or break a group. I think AST having lower potency heals and would be the problem before the party bonus.

Most of the clears have been done with statics, they're pretty on-point when it comes to their role, so missing that buff isn't a big issue to them. However, the average PF group is far from being anywhere near that, and for the sake of progressing, yes, they are 100% going to want their healers healing for slightly more, so WHM becomes mandatory healer.

I didn't say that it was a huge issue that needs to be fixed immediately. I agree their lower potency heals and their brittle version of Adlo need to be addressed first. This thread is about the problems surrounding AST, I figured I'd mention an issue that isn't mentioned often. It does exist and it can effect a players ability to do certain content.

[KaedrianLiang]

The ultimate fix for ast is to allow them to freely switch between diurnal and nocturnal sects while in combat.

[Israacf]

I agree with Selli, I quit Ast because of the very same reasons that they couldn't take me instead of a Scholar, since they were, technically (and they are) better.

[Ametrine]

Noct overriding Adlo sounds like a glitch to me. Being a SCH main up until now, I was looking foward to the benefits of Noct, as I find myself never touching Diurnal Aspected skills, but canceling adlo, which is such a deeply rooted core skill of any SCH, sounds like a disastrous design choice as Noct has lower sheild potency. If anything, Galvanize should beat out Noct\\'s sheild if they won\\'t let the skills stack (considering regens do, they should, I think!)

That being said, I\\'m level 41, and right now, the only adjustment I'm dealing with is dealing with the cards verses doing a ton of side DPS.

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[Ametrine]

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I feel like the job is meant for us to constantly be drawing and doling out the cards in equal amounts to actually healing, which is impossible unless the heals have decent potency.

My suggestion would change Nocturnal from a weaker version of Adlo to a straight up defense buff on top of the heal, a flat rate percentage boost that stacks with the bole and other defense CDs a party member has up. It\\'ll give Noct it's own methodology and let them coordinate with other AST and SCH better, and give a solo AST more reason to specialize it.

[dice137]

Please fix the unnecessary amount of threads like this one that will never be addressed, let alone seen or cared about by anyone who would actually have any input on the matter.

[Daralii]

I just wish they'd rework the nocturnal CU to not just be a bad version of Sacred Soil.