Astrologian: Mimi's Guide to the Stars

[Ghishlain]

[something I'm not actually sure about for once, under Ewer card priority, you may be 100% correct, I've never really tested if it works on a BRD who is using a song like Army or Mages, or even foes, i always thought that prevented them from receiving mp regen themselves when singing]

BRD who's singing can still receive MP from Ewer. I was on the first boss of Neverreap once where I just happened to have Extended Ewer with Shuffle and Spread used so I ended up using it on the BRD who had Foes up. Because of Ewer, they basically were able to maintain Foes for the entire fight.

I imagine Mage's Ballad doesn't affect the BRD singing it because infinite MP shenanigans.

@Card use
I find DRGs to be a good use for Spear as they have their own fair share of oGCD DPS abilities.
Arrow on classes with native attack speed buffs get even faster because of the way Haste stacks in the game. Also jobs that are dependent on their combo for higher DPS abilities can benefit from Arrow too (ie WAR w/ their Wrath/Abandon stacks and DRG w/ Blood of the Dragon + Geirskogul)

[Mimilu]

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Grammatical Errors
I'll definitely fix those. >w>()

Spear
I was originally going to put all of ASTs oGCDs that were effected by it but decided not to. I'll add them to it.

Lightspeed
What I meant was "If you are in Nocturnal Sect, use Aspected Helios before the first hit OR if you are in Diurnal, use it afterwards". I'll reword it so it makes more sense.

Synastry
1. You can't target yourself with Synastry. Every time you try, you'll get an Invalid Target message. D;
2. I forgot about that! I just tested it and it still works. Defiantly need to add that to the guide.

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I'll reword it so that it is single-target spells.

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I do need to put a warning on Arrow and Spear about their potential to mess up rotations... >w>()

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I had forgotten about DRG's Blood of the Dragon. >w>()
I do need to add that Spear helps most jobs with things like openers or when their rotation restarts.

[Mikoko_Miko]

Synastry's trigger has changed since 3.07 patch. At first English text was wrong so I made a bug report. It has been fixed.

Old:

Each time you cast a healing spell on a party member not under the effect of Synastry

New:

Each time you cast a single-target healing spell on yourself or a party member

[Aurelle_Delacroix]

Just as a general message as someone who main's BLM....Arrow is great! I love it! When I'm doing single target. Don't ever give me an Arrow during AoE trash pulls. I find that Arrow/Leylines make me cast too fast to the point after I get my rotation going and I Flare, I need to wait an extra few seconds to use Tranpose and keep going. It's not TOO much longer of a wait but for a BLM? Ever second counts. So yeah....you get an Arrow? Don't give it to the BLM unless it's during a boss fight~

[VolAnari]

I would personally never spread a bole. It's basically your only access to the enhance effect. Spear and and bole are pretty much RR fodder for me, though I will occasionally use spear for pre-pull dps CD, or before i use LA + CO or synastry, because god I love synastry. I also like giving spear to SMN and SCH when I notice they dont have aether stacks or have only 1 stack. I would certainly NEVER expand a bole, it's just not worth it at all.

[technole]

I would certainly NEVER expand a bole, it's just not worth it at all.

Thordan Extreme, Ultimate End. If you had multiple deaths before you might need every cooldown in the book to survive it due to high LB and/or given weaknesses. Spread Bole, Tank Convo, Mantra, PLD Divine Veil, Eos buffs (if SCH available usually Adlo spread the tank with the cooldowns up). If you are the Noct AST in that situation, Synastry buff with the usual shields and CU. 5% mitigation can be a life saver in this fight if you've ever done it, or healed through a phase 9.

Can work on A3S Splash/Cascade, along with Disable. Usually AoE DPS buffs as much as possible because of DPS checks but it's another situation if that is what you got. With 210 gear now this mechanic isn't so much heartburn with mitigation.

[VolAnari]

Thordan Extreme, Ultimate End. If you had multiple deaths before you might need every cooldown in the book to survive it due to high LB and/or given weaknesses. Spread Bole, Tank Convo, Mantra, PLD Divine Veil, Eos buffs (if SCH available usually Adlo spread the tank with the cooldowns up). If you are the Noct AST in that situation, Synastry buff with the usual shields and CU. 5% mitigation can be a life saver in this fight if you've ever done it, or healed through a phase 9.

Can work on A3S Splash/Cascade, along with Disable. Usually AoE DPS buffs as much as possible because of DPS checks but it's another situation if that is what you got. With 210 gear now this mechanic isn't so much heartburn with mitigation.

Good to know thank you. I think you are right that Thordan calls for a different style than ASavage

[Mimilu]

Did the revisions I posted above and added a Stat Weight section.

[Mikoko_Miko]

Synastry
excluding the AST who placed the buff on them

Just like LDR wrote, Synastry works when you cast a single-target healing spell on yourself.

Note that Essential Dignity doesn't benefit from Synastry because it is not a spell but an ability. Collective Unconscious is also an ability.

[Mimilu]

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Revising and adding the note about Essential Dignity and CU.