Astrologian IMO

[Muahbec]

If you do your role well then that will not be an issue. If they force you to change job based on healer forum drama then maybe the static is not meant for you. I would find friends that do not try to force you to change jobs if you do not want. I see statics recruiting on balmung chatter all the time for white/astro in case someone has the mind to think that astrologians are not wanted.

Its not a "healer forum drama" its the obvious fact that AST is INDEED weaker.
How can you be so blind?
Are you being paid to say such amount of nonsense?
o_e

[Muahbec]

It really sucks. I am another one that was REALLY looking forward to Astrologian.
Heck, I love how the class looks and plays...
I am trying to decide whether I want to stick with it to 60, or level another healer now.
I have scholar at 55, Astrologian at 41 and am considering trying white mage for a while.
AST are just so much more fun than Sch and Whm to me .

I just dunno if I am willing to just trust that they will get them up there with Whm and Sch.
Kinda sucks if one healer will just always be inherently worse and a burden in comparison to your team.....

If you enjoy playing with it, then play.
Of course, the job is quite limited compared to WHM and SCH but it will receive some love from SE soon, so don't give up on it.

[Vlady]

The only thing I am bitter is the bad word that people themselves are spreading. Astrologian should never have an issue in itleast dungeons if the person playing the job is even half way decent. The White mage/scholar duo is more popular because it is something people are comfortable with from ARR days and provide more wiggle room for error. Astro does have less error correcting abilities which is what cooldowns are generally for which I hope we get cooldown revamps to two of our abilities.

I guess being in a static with my real life family does provide me some shelter against the preferred team that people want of white mage and scholar but we have gotten A1 Savage down to 20% last raid night and I am 100% sure we would have won by now if not for us only raiding 5-6 hours a week from limited schedule.

[Yhisa]

I am not all sure if astro's will be touched upon much. It took a year and half for summoner to get changed into the power house it is today.

Just ignore Vlady he just an annoyance with no meaning........ But on my server in PF all healers slots are only for WHM/SCH and it is spreading fast....u would have the odd few with any healer but majority do not want an AST.... which is causing an issue.... So i have to ask my fc to do things on my AST because of this,,,,, which is depressing... and i love this job sooo much

[Vlady]

Just ignore Vlady he just an annoyance with no meaning........ But on my server in PF all healers slots are only for WHM/SCH and it is spreading fast....u would have the odd few with any healer but majority do not want an AST.... which is causing an issue.... So i have to ask my fc to do things on my AST because of this,,,,, which is depressing... and i love this job sooo much

Just ignore Yhisa or we can go down her road of white mage and scholar getting their job defining strengths pretty much neutered. Maybe take the initiative and form your own party? Sometimes leading can change more then following and coming on a thread demanding all jobs you dont play be nerfed.

[DkDerek]

Vlad, the fact that you have not even killed A1 savage down on ast is not helping your case. It's week 3. Lol.6 hours is plenty of raiding. You have put aprox 18 hours onto the first boss.


Please stop posting on the forums, your opinions are irrelevant.

[Leiloni]

Please stop posting on the forums, your opinions are irrelevant.

He might not be correct in his opinions of the AST, but you're a major jerk (trying to be nice and not get forumbanned) who doesn't even have a 30 AST, nor a 60 healer of the other jobs. What are you doing here again?

[Muahbec]

He might not be correct in his opinions of the AST, but you're a major jerk (trying to be nice and not get forumbanned) who doesn't even have a 30 AST, nor a 60 healer of the other jobs. What are you doing here again?

Well, technically you don't need a lv 60 job to understand its issues, as a healer i don't need to have a lv 60 DPS to understand their issues as well.
And if you pay attention, Kayleen and Derek know each other so obviously Derek knows a bunch of the healers job thanks to his friend, just like i know a bunch of the DPSs job thanks to my friend.

[Kayleen]

The only thing I am bitter is the bad word that people themselves are spreading. Astrologian should never have an issue in itleast dungeons if the person playing the job is even half way decent.

I specifically said in the OP that AST can run 90% of the content without issue... this includes (ex primals, dungeons and normal ALEX). I think AST in savage is where the major drawbacks of the class are magnified. NO ONE on this thread is criticising AST unjustly for the sake of spreading hate.

[DkDerek]

He might not be correct in his opinions of the AST, but you're a major jerk (trying to be nice and not get forumbanned) who doesn't even have a 30 AST, nor a 60 healer of the other jobs. What are you doing here again?

Posting from the point of view of a DPS. You don't need to heal to understand how bad asts are performing. They show up in my groups and I have to deal with them as well. The job is trash in its current state.SE owes them a fix now, not in 3.1.