AST's weakness in end game

[Vlady]

In fact it is impossible. Only se can reliably do it from data gathered to calculate its average means. I did hours of tests worth and without buffs with my brother and get yelled down for supposedly coming up with magic numbers during the time astrologian were wanting buffs. I only reported what were my personal dps gains the two jobs parsed over not having a steady stream of balance/arrow/timed spear cards.

Using math to prove one side of the other works well but only when variables are constantly consistent which is less likely in healing compared to dps checks. 10 pages of theory craft has shown us over the course of a longer fight the white mage comes out ahead but during shorter encounters the astrologian has the advantage which seems a decent trade off. People need to get away with wanting nocturnal stance to let the astrologian be in essence a scholar. I would be for a unique shield mechanic as I have said countless times and or even nocturnal being a weaker offensive version of cleric stance but not suffer the healing penalties of cleric stance as a form of additional dps support. But in order for our utility to be buffed we cannot keep this healing power that we have right now.