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    AzureFlare's Avatar
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    Lucille Lifeblossom
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    Cerberus
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    Astrologian Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by MidnightTundra View Post
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    A few months ago by now I tossed it in a spreadsheet and Aspected Benefic's power comes from the combination of shorter time frame, lower mana cost in filler spells and Diurnal passively being faster. Basically, if you need to make up the difference in potency between Aspected Benefic and Regen, you'll either lose a lot of globals while casting Cure, or most of your mana gain (and still globals!) casting Cure 2. Essentially, if an AST still has to cast Benefic to add onto the required potency, that difference becomes significantly smaller and smaller to the point Aspected Benefic ends up more powerful. Add a time constraint to it and it shifts towards Aspected Benefic even more so.

    Though the tables did assume that for one, you have 'perfect uptime' on both spells and two, you make full use of Aspected Benefic's upfront heal. Also, the calculations were done without any buffs/abilities and assuming that WHM's passive MND bonus and Diurnal Sect's attackspeed bonus would cancel each other out. I can't remember if I factored in Freecure either.

    Basically Aspected Benefic in Diurnal Sect is the spell that frees up most of AST's globals to make up for what it can't do/doesn't have compared to a WHM. The others being CU, which is very fight-dependent, and Essential Dignity.
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    Last edited by AzureFlare; 01-28-2016 at 11:26 PM.