Astrologian Change Suggestions

[Anubis_Nephthys]

Hey guys. I just wanted to throw my two gil in the pile for changes to the job to make it less underpowered. Yoshi P has stated that he thinks the biggest problem with Astrologian is the randomness of the cards, and I agree for the most part. However, if we were able to just use the cards we wanted on demand, it would be too powerful, in my opinion. My solution is a compilation of many different threads across multiple sites.


Skill Changes:

• Celestial Opposition - No longer stuns enemies and instead grants a 10s buff that allows free switching between the Sects. 180s cooldown.
• New Skill - Use? - Uses currently drawn card.
• Draw - Draws a card randomly from a deck of six. After 6 draws, the deck is automatically shuffled. 5-10s cooldown. (TBD by developers for balance.)
• Shuffle - Adds all cards back in deck and shuffles them.

Card Changes:

• Bole - increased from 10-20%.
• Ewer - Refreshes MP and TP.
• Spire - 10% increased healing received.

The idea is to separate the Draw skill and the ability to use the card, so you don't have to get rid of a card right away to start your cooldown. I believe this option is better than adding a discard skill, as some have proposed. In addition, due to having a deck of only 6, you cannot draw the same card again without manually using the Shuffle skill or running through all 6 cards.

The card changes are also a major change I think we need. Bole in all honesty is just too weak when compared to the impact that the other cards have. Also, having 2 resource cards seems like a waste to me, especially when you consider we are missing a form of increased healing. I think combining the resource cards and adding increase healing received is a nice way to address both issues.

Let me know what you guys think.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Did anyone count how many of these topics are around nowadays?

[Azorius]

My problem with that spire change is that the flavor would be sooo wrong. AST card system is tarot inspired and the spire (aka the tower) is the ultimate calamity card (much worse than death, which isn't always bad surprisingly. Just means big changes).

[Blitzace]

Just saying, 10% might not be alot, but then again. you can get that bole up for 45 seconds. which is quite alot in mitigate DMG if you ask me.
Spire how ever, i rarely find a usage for it.

[Geardagas]

Just saying, 10% might not be alot, but then again. you can get that bole up for 45 seconds. which is quite alot in mitigate DMG if you ask me.
Spire how ever, i rarely find a usage for it.

45 second bole isn't even worth casting when you can try for 45 second balance instead. Don't waste your RR on crap cards.

Spire is always better to use on the tank in every situation.

[Assirra]

Did anyone count how many of these topics are around nowadays?

There are there for a reason tough.

I however wish we had a massive "Astrologian" thread where ALL the info goes into then a million small ones.