What does everyone think about those AST buffs?

[RazeLandale]

Having played some...

Collective unconscious is great. It's strong and it's satisfying to use.

The cards they buffed are also really satisfying.

Spear still sucks though and I still don't see why it didn't go 30s to give it a bit more consistency. A handful of abilities can double dip at 30s(Say, two guass rounds in one card), but...is that really a huge problem? I think most of the offenders are the lower end dps anyway. I think spear needs a rework, but it'd have been a ok bandaid. Super situational spear and kinda situational spire don't help the stated goal of making the rng less painful. Really, it's worse because the good cards are even better now. BUT, on spire...

The tp bar is wonderful. No more guesswork. You know if you need it and who needs it most. Dps be warned, if you didn't pop invigorate at 600 tp, I'll know. This is really good for Arrow too if there's no blm. Because you can see who has the most tp and toss it on them.

The only bad thing that I think that shouldn't be here is Noct Aspected Benefic being that powerful: Instant cast, lower mp cost, higher migration due to higher shield - it should be on par, not better than Adlo (outside crit but you that's our Cure II, AST has Benefic II for that as well)

I think that's why you've nothing to worry about. We don't really need two cure II's. And while they buffed the shields, they buffed helios and benefic II as well. The problem continues to be, noct lets you heal a different way, but it doesn't really make you better at it, where diurnal does.

[Verrin]

Then they'd have to lower the potency on Physick to make up for it.

& why would that be?, sch doesnt have a Cure 2, true they have lustrate but its an ability so it gets no buffs from defiance or convalescence + they can only use it 3 times a minute if they use none of the other aetherflow ablilitys

[Brightshadow]

Having played some...

The cards they buffed are also really satisfying.

Spear still sucks though and I still don't see why it didn't go 30s to give it a bit more consistency. .

I think the reason why they didn't adjust the spear is because I think they are working on adjustments for the card, and perhaps they haven't finalized these adjustments. So probably in the next hot-fix or patch 3.1 we might have the spear fixed, and the duration increased.

[SuzakuCMX]

& why would that be?, sch doesnt have a Cure 2, true they have lustrate but its an ability so it gets no buffs from defiance or convalescence + they can only use it 3 times a minute if they use none of the other aetherflow ablilitys

Because they are balanced already and straight up buffing a class that is balanced would be stupid.

[Verrin]

Because they are balanced already and straight up buffing a class that is balanced would be stupid.

no dumber then buffing a weak class to be above everything else

[RyouAkizuki]

no dumber then buffing a weak class to be above everything else

Good thing that didn't happen!

[Verrin]

Good thing that didn't happen!

says an ast

[Ghishlain]

says an ast

It didn't happen.

[SuzakuCMX]

says an ast

Says a level 50 Scholar.

[Verrin]

im letting my self get dragged down to the wrong level, my whole point is that the aspected benific shield should end up as 300 potency not 325 & the regen between the base heal & the regen effect should be equal to whm regen over the same durration