Thread: 3.2 Astrologian Changes

As someone that beat A3S in Sept and A4S in October as an AST, The LA buff is amazing, here is why.

Before this in raid you always had to combine CO with LA to gain 20 seconds of LA. There was no two ways around this during progression, you needed the mana to keep going. If it lined up with a card buff that was just a bonus. But this 20 seconds of LA was pretty damn powerful, and getting two extra ticks of mana was fantastic. Now with this buff you have the option of not having to do this and still getting those extra ticks plus 2 more ticks. This allows you to use CO as a card duration extender or as a stun if needed(you should never have to stun during raid btw). CO can and prob still will be used with LA for a lot of progression but that gives you 30(ok well technically 29) seconds of mana regen. Now if you got lucky and enhanced speared yourself before you used LA you cut its cooldown to 84 seconds, and with LA lasting 30 seconds you only have a downtime of 54 seconds before you can give yourself a ton of MP back again. Even if you didn't get a chance to spear yourself, 29 seconds of LA is a crap ton of mana, it's basically like getting to use SoS back to back.

With this buff to LA, potency increase to Ewer, the already lower costs of spells for AST, and the reduction of MP while using Lightspeed means that ASTs could literally have an endless MP pool and never have to worry about mana. Which for progression is amazing.

Edit: Also to touch on the hate issue, it was a huge problem on AST. CU puts essentially a single target regen on everyone if you use it and causes massive hate generation. Also during progression, if a DRK is trying to maximize damage he will almost never use his hate combo causing problems as well. I stole hate on A3S so much during progression coming out of add phase it wasn't funny and it caused so many unnecessary wipes.