Thread: 3.1 : Astrologian "adjustments''

Originally Posted by Ghishlain

The other changes given to AST outside of the potency buff was more than sufficient to put them in line with the healers. Potency change was unneeded as AST already have equivalent baseline heals when you compensate for Sect bonuses.

I'm not saying revert the entire kit - just that aspect of the kit that I personally felt was entirely unneeded.

Alternatively, adjust Sect bonus to be more unique and keep competencies the same.

I partly agree but it may have been to compensate for the lack of MND buff in a SCH/Astro party. So adding a mnd buff before reverting would be ideal.

Originally Posted by Staris

I partly agree but it may have been to compensate for the lack of MND buff in a SCH/Astro party. So adding a mnd buff before reverting would be ideal.

Someone made a suggestion in another thread where party bonus would be dependent on the number of healers you had. So, in a single healer party (4-man dungeons), your team gets a MND bonus. If you have two healers, the second healer would provide a PIE bonus.

I like this idea and it gets around the conundrum of giving any future healer a MND or PIE bonus and "force" some combinations that have MND bonus.

Sorry the n00bie question, but... What's RNG? I play AST as my main (190) and every time that I read about it or see some youtube videos about AST, they always talk about this 'RNG'. For what I've understood so far, by the context, it means some related to 'randon'blablabla. I even tried to use the glossary on ffxiv gamerescape, but it's not there.

I'm really hoping for changes that put the sects on par with each other, and improves the diversity between AST and WHM skills.

Can we please stop promoting this "Gravity with Heavy" idea? What would that provide exactly? So what, enemies can't move as fast. Newsflash - if you're using Gravity, they're already grouped together. This would provide no damage mitigation whatsoever. If you want a real improvement to Gravity, at least request something useful, like Slow (which would still be line with the 'Gravity lore').

Originally Posted by RajaVamberaux

Can we please stop promoting this "Gravity with Heavy" idea? What would that provide exactly? So what, enemies can't move as fast. Newsflash - if you're using Gravity, they're already grouped together. This would provide no damage mitigation whatsoever. If you want a real improvement to Gravity, at least request something useful, like Slow (which would still be line with the 'Gravity lore').

Wow finally someone that is making sense.
Why exactly would a heavy on gravity make it better? I want an actual explanation from someone because it makes no sense.

Originally Posted by VitalSuit

Wow finally someone that is making sense.
Why exactly would a heavy on gravity make it better? I want an actual explanation from someone because it makes no sense.

I think people are just throwing it out there as a suggestion to make it better than it is so that it's at least similar to Holy. I don't mind it not having stun, my issue is I hate that it's from level 52 or whatever. I feel so useless on hard mode, trials, or lower level stuff not having any AoE. There's so many times where Holy is handy in them to wipe out groups of mobs.

Originally Posted by VitalSuit

Wow finally someone that is making sense.
Why exactly would a heavy on gravity make it better? I want an actual explanation from someone because it makes no sense.

I think most players seem to forget that Gravity costs 20% less MP than Holy. I'd prefer the cheaper MP cost as the "additional effect" versus any frivolous benefit Heavy may have and bumping the MP cost of Gravity to match Holy.