AST: recent letter from the producer

[nexas506]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...257609/?page=1

We'll focus on adjusting the power of astrologian healing.*
Additionally, we're making adjustments to the duration of party-supporting actions. You should be able to feel the power boosts more clearly, so please look forward to it.

The second post down.
Im feeling hopeful enough to take ast off the back burner and grind those last 5 levels.
Thoughts?

(Sorry about the bad formatting, im on my cellphone )

[Yurimi]

I am looking forward to them as I have recently found a raid team who was hopeful changes would be coming and was willing to take my AST on, I am hoping they look at both sects for AST when buffing and not just durial again though but I do have faith that this may be what we need to become competative.

[Assirra]

Honestly? really dissapointed

No mention of very required healing cd's
no mention of less rng
no mention of our cards actually being involved with healing and not just a wonky tagged on system

All i see is astrologian becoming the perfect farm content healer.

[Gaston]

I'm kinda disappointed.
Glad to others change but I couldn't see any mention of Noct stance.
But still have hope Yoshi PD will work on that sooner.
Beside that. Satisfied.

[Vlady]

The state ment is ambiguous enough the healing increase could be from cooldowns.also feels like they are going to increase the duration of the cards over buffing the cards effects itself.

[Akyio]

Still have to see it. I love the class and sitting at ilvl193 now i dont intend to somehow stop buying AST eso gear or something. Ill just trust SE on this. I'm mainly waiting for the changes to finally fully dive into savage without people telling me no "no ast plz"

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

To be honest I'm quite nervous about the changes... specially because if they do not deliver it just means I won't be able to use AST for progression. And what's the point on using it for farming content only, if the first eso spent (or any new currency they come up with) don't go to it but to my WHM, that I don't find as fun. Hate wasting my eso on jobs I want to leave behind. I'd also hate having to stop raiding because it's one of the few things that makes me log on the game. But if it all boils down to that, well I guess more freetime for gathering/crafting and becoming a casual player. I just won't have the coolest looking gear (aside from artifact armor :P) but I'll be able to enjoy my gimped AST and all the tomes would go to it, like a single child pamper.

Wanted to add, part of the reason I'm quite nervous is because they've been kinda vague about how they have thought of boosting the job.. their statements' vagueness makes me think just adding a band aid and be done with it but hopefully they'll surprise us like they surprised Warrior in 2.1.

[Muahbec]

What? This is so vague
No mention of the horrible RNG, lack of healing CDs(maybe this is included into the "adjusting the power of astrologian healing" ?) and specially, the LACK OF IDENTITY.
I'm looking forward to it but i'm also a bit worried.

[Damianqq]

They promised good changes in the past aswell and basically it was a complete let down.

What worries me the most is that they still aren't able to say anything specific / concrete. I honestly don't expect anything spectacular, just some minor tweaking to some of the skills. I don't think it will be nearly enough to get the class where it should have been from the start. Part of the problem is that they failed to make AST unique. All it has is a weird mix of whm & sch skills with a bunch of cards slapped to it.

[nexas506]

Mediocre buffs are still better than no buffs.
But at least the cards will actually feel like they're doing something. Im pumped for that at least.