Astrologian - do you really want to rely on RNG in your group healer?

[Teraluna]

For some games rng can have a place, I'm thinking ftp mmo lockboxes, where players bank on the 0.000001% chance of getting something more than the usual healing potion out of these.

But a vital role in a group should never be reliant on a lucky dip mechanic. To me, this just comes across as a gimmick for gimmicks sake. Any and all classes should rely purely on player skill, not I just happened to get the right card at the right moment in the middle of a hectic boss fight.

More needs to be done with the card draw mechanism. Keep the boon selections but remove the rng. It's an important role - not a lockbox.

[Wilhem]

To be honest the RNG mechanic of the astrologian do not really influence its core role it's just a little bonus here and there but nothing that valuable that it becomes core to how to heal. It is useful but it isn't anything more than a nice bonus to have when it comes out and most can do without it anyway.

EDIT: Also you should have more than enough tools to manipulate "fate" and get what you want when you want quite often.

[l---------------l]

Astrologian needs skill, not RNG.

As an Astrologian PRO I can tell you that you can pretty much change the destiny of your cards and take what you want or save what you want. We have skills that, if used properly, allows us to take benefit of ANY card we take and for ANY situation.

It's about skill, not about RNG. (Of course it affects you A LITTLE... But well, as getting a fire proc with BLM affects you? Not that much of a big deal)


PS: Thanks to card management, my AST has better MP management than my SCH and WHM, that's just a silent tip of how good this management could get, I tend to go AST when I need to do The Wipe City of Mancos. (Need to raise, protect, and heal, a lot... )

You just need to value the situation, sometimes giving a bit more of defense to the tank or more damage to a DPS is not so vital as burning that card and get your next MP powered up by that... If you get an useless card (For me it's The Spire, TP one) just need to use our fancy skill to change it for another more useful, and so go on.

[Croweyes]

" I don't like it, there for its bad "

[HakaseNyan]

AST is in a pretty good place right now. It's no longer as frustrating as when it was released. However, I still believe it would've been nice if the cards were a bigger focus of the job. Like, try to imagine if the card skill cooldowns were between 5 and 10 seconds and same-card effects were stackable say up to 3x or 5x. It would change the scope of AST's cards from cherry picking cards and cherry picking single or full party buffing, to keeping everyone buffed all of the time, and stack said buff. Would've made it more interesting with how little damage output AST has.

[Rawrz]

100% Guaranteed a Spread Balance for your group for 30 seconds on pull (+5% added onto the other opener multipliers.) Uber strong Healer tool kit. Very powerful DoTs (Combust II is 450 potency, compared to bio II at 350.)

AST is in good place.

[Reinha]

SCH shields are affected by crits. WHM has randomly reduced mp costs. The rng is tied straight to their healing unlike AST who only has rng on their support skills.

[AskaRay]

Im sorry you've met with terrible ASTs, OP, but they're fine.

[RLofOBFL]

Only the buffs are RNG....the healing is all normal <.<


This question is like saying do you really wanna rely on BRD procs BLM procs & MCH WF for damage? & don't get me started on crits.

[Greedalox]

As their primary focus, most classes have more RNG than AST.