Balance was balanced

[Yorumi]

SCH still has more overall shielding ability

Um, sch has aldo, weaker than asp. benefic, and succor, weaker than asp. helios. How do they have more shielding than ast?

[Shurrikhan]

Given current gimped Critical Strike modifiers (the % bonus damage given), they've found the one way to make Spear even less effective. It would need to be over 25% to be competitive with the new Balance or Arrow, at which point it would synergize too well with Monks and Bards. A 15% increased Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Bonus would still favor those with high Critical Strike stat and Crit dependence, but at least retain a more general balance.

[Starflake]

I think Astrologion got buffed instead of nerfed. With the addition of Spear, you don't have to fish for Balance anymore. Which means you now have two cards that are incredibly useful and bring raid DPS. Which means that the uptime of these useful cards will be much higher than when just fishing for Balance cards. If this actually ends up being a buff, I can't say I'm nothing but disgusted.

[Elamys]

I think Astrologion got buffed instead of nerfed. With the addition of Spear, you don't have to fish for Balance anymore. Which means you now have two cards that are incredibly useful and bring raid DPS. Which means that the uptime of these useful cards will be much higher than when just fishing for Balance cards. If this actually ends up being a buff, I can't say I'm nothing but disgusted.

I don't know if people didn't realize this but we HAD two DPS improvement cards before, or did Arrow just stop existing?

Balance got a significant nerf and as was mentioned in numerous threads, a DPS increase trumps everything else. Balance will probably still be king of the cards.

But was it fun gameplay for AST to have 6 cards and only care about 1 or maybe 2 depending on how many casters you had? That's why it got nerfed. Balance was too strong comparatively.

I also have to appreciate the guy who said he wasn't gonna talk about something off topic coming in and complaining about Scholar.

[LegoTechnic]

I don't know if people didn't realize this but we HAD two DPS improvement cards before, or did Arrow just stop existing?

No, BLM did because RDM.

/rimshot

[Elamys]

No, BLM did because RDM.

/rimshot

this is too soon

[Starflake]

I don't know if people didn't realize this but we HAD two DPS improvement cards before, or did Arrow just stop existing?

Balance got a significant nerf and as was mentioned in numerous threads, a DPS increase trumps everything else. Balance will probably still be king of the cards.

But was it fun gameplay for AST to have 6 cards and only care about 1 or maybe 2 depending on how many casters you had? That's why it got nerfed. Balance was too strong comparatively.

I also have to appreciate the guy who said he wasn't gonna talk about something off topic coming in and complaining about Scholar.

You now have three useful DPS cards. Even though Balance is nerfed, it's pretty clear to me that it may just end up in an actual increase. Crit synergized incredibly well with a lot of classes in raids too.

[Elamys]

You now have three useful DPS cards. Even though Balance is nerfed, it's pretty clear to me that it may just end up in an actual increase. Crit synergized incredibly well with a lot of classes in raids too.

And how many other classes bring a crit increase? You don't have to bring an AST because you want a crit buff.

[Starflake]

And how many other classes bring a crit increase? You don't have to bring an AST because you want a crit buff.

How is this even an argument and accepted by some people. Let me just sum it up. Astrologians can give raw extra damage, raw extra crit, raw extra skill and spell speed, can give thirty second damage reductions on tanks for 20% and it has like 200 less overall DPS than other healers. Which other healer can do that? It has stronger medicas, it has stronger shields. How is it not overpowered, really? It's not that Astrologion bringing crit is a bad thing. It's that is brings it on top of all the other utility you seem to forget other classes don't have.

[Deox]

And how many other classes bring a crit increase? You don't have to bring an AST because you want a crit buff.

I do now I find it pretty awesome tbh