AST buffs in 3.4 Changes to Barries and Cards.

[Yona87]

SCH should always have a guaranteed raid spot while either AST/WHM sit out. Sorry to say.

[Rennies]

That's extremely selfish of you.

Every combination of healers (aside from duplicates; including ast/ast) should have their own benefits and downfalls. Square Enix knows that Scholar is far too strong for the current meta and will continue warping things in the future, that's why they're making things fair ASAP.

[Valknut]

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Crazy part is all but one combination of healers is viable an that is WHM/AST every other combination of healers work for optimal groups outside of this combo. Leaving half of AST & WHM's raid group less. From a balance stand point were not too bad, but from a reality stand point this should have had more foresight. I really do hope they keep it with 3 healers for next ex-pac or they do just delete N.AST, or make it a Cooldown. We need somethign to compete with SCH. Buffs or not I just don't see N.AST doing that without the ex-pac skills.

[zuzu-bq]

SCH should always have a guaranteed raid spot while either AST/WHM sit out. Sorry to say.

Two players in this thread have a WHM AST in their statics, your argument was invalid before you had even said it.

[Nekotee]

SCH should always have a guaranteed raid spot while either AST/WHM sit out. Sorry to say.

Said a sch which is currently trembling and sit in her corner waiting for the 3.4 patch because we WILL steal your spot after killing the whm...

Shantay we slay, good-bye sch !

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I admit that I would love to steal eye for an eye but we can't have everything

[Starkbeaumont]

I'm really curious what they gonna change this time. imo AST is fine the way it is right now. it's just harder compared to whm/sch to achieve the same goal. to many buffs and one of the other 2 healer might have to "suffer"

[Rennies]

Nocturnal Astrologian is. Not. Fine. If a job has a harder time to reach the same goal as other similar ones because of lower overall contribution rather than higher skill required, it is in need of buffs. That's what balancing is for... An equal playing field.

Diurnal is definitely on par with White Mage but the card system could use a lot of work. I'd actually prefer if they nerfed our healing but made every card more universally useful.

[tjw]

I'd actually prefer if they nerfed our healing but made every card more universally useful.

That'll depend on how much you want nerfed. Remember when AST was released with lower potencies across the board and it was absolutely dreadful? I don't want that to happen again. Truthfully, that was wrapped up with a whole lot of other release issues involving cards, Synastry being sub-par, Disable being useless against multi-hits, CU being too much risk and not enough reward...

[Rennies]

Yes, but Square Enix released Ast like that out of incompetency. They've had more than a year to balance it and what they ended up doing didn't really strengthen the job's identity, just made it usable.

[Starkbeaumont]

so Rennies, how would you actually buff noct stance without overpowering it?