Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
The majority of people who answered didnt give me an opinion, they gave me a, "you forgot to take this into account" response. I have no problem with someone saying "I disagree, because of this and that", some people even did that. I wasn't taking the other utility into account because I wanted the skills to be taken at face value, based on all of the factors in that one skill alone.
Its not that you "forgot" is that you said you intentionally removed it as a factor. The problem being your discussion at that point is kind of in the dirt from most folks who are interested in theory craft (not everyone, but I would estimate a majority). Consequently you got the feedback that... your question is simply not interesting if you're going to ignore the pet.

Likewise this induces some rage, because in many ways Noct Astro is still NOTABLY deficit in comparison to Scholars. So much that securing a healer slot in a savage raid in the Scholar slot is virtually impossible (and possibly foolish). As some have pointed out Noct Astro's do have some advantages, the biggest being their kit has higher mobile healing than a scholar (due to the instant cast shield, lightspeed and Essential Dignity) Likewise Astros have the double heal-mode of Synastry. But again the problem falls that in current raid content Scholars ability to do their full DPS, while the pet sub heals causes all healers interested in their slot to fall VASTLY short. Anyway for better or worse this triggers some rage when a scholar says hey... like what they have, can I get a buff in that direction? So you can look and get huggles... but you probably should walk some Noct Astro's shoes to understand why their skills are tuned the way they are. Or ask why they are ;-) That would have worked to if you asked why there was such a deficit between the two skills in mana cost (and instant cast).