Learning how to properly play AST

[FoxyAreku]

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Half of their abilities are related to card buffs, which hurts their ability to keep up in throughput.
Again...worst is not the same as bad. Astro is worse than both scholar and white mage in both healing throughput and damage done. This doesn't mean that they aren't fine for all the content currently in the game, at all. I'm not sure what we're even debating anymore, nor how I can spell this out for you any further. Compare an AST healing numbers to the numbers capable by the other two jobs and AST will always come out last, I'll number crunch for you if that's what you're wanting.
Also for scholar-you forgot succor, emergency tactics, lustrate, indom, Embrace, Whispering Dawn, Fey Illumination, and dissipation. Cooldowns and oGCDs count, since AST has a ridiculous low amount of them related to healing (Essential Dignity and Synastry are about it, you can maybe count lightspeed too if you're feeling lenient).

Aetherflow and Energy Drain also makes a scholar's mana management a lot easier and more reliable than an astrologian.

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I guess what I asked of you was too hard. ;P Oh well.