Possible AST nerf

[Reilyn]

You're missing a lot of context for the changes you addressed.

1. MP costs were changed and aetherflow was nerfed because scholar has access to lucid dreaming now. Leaving out that fact is incredibly disingenuous.

2. AST shield is stronger for 1 reason: to balance it with deployment tactics.

No one is denying that Sch needs some love, but it's no where near as bad off as the people that can't apply proper context would have you believe.

It's bad enough when I can't justify a reason to bring a SCH over an AST for anything right now if given the choice between the two when SCHs do lack in every category I listed. I've played SCH since 2.0, cleared gordias savage, and seen how ASTs sucked first hand back then, and even advocated for buffs for them because they were in the situation SCHs are in now.

Using a 2min cooldown as an excuse to make one spell consistently more powerful is stupid, and again, SE knows it, which is part of the reason they're probably reducing the cooldown of deployment tactics after the fact, so your second point was actually rather stupid if you're talking from the context of 2-min-cooldown deployment tactics.

You haven't said a word about anything I said actually being inaccurate.