[Request] AST MP cost reductions please

[Ghishlain]

AST already gains a passive MP cost reduction on their Benefic (20%), Benefic II (10%), and Helios (10%). The healing spells that are more expensive are Aspected Benefic and Aspected Helios - neither of which you should be spamming. Also AST has the strongest oGCD AoE heal in the game on a 60s CD in the form of Earthly Star and Essential Dignity is on a 45s cooldown and is basically as powerful as Tetragrammaton which is a 60s CD.

While the AST kit does indeed have the lowest MP regeneration kit of the three healers at this time, they also have quite a few tools at their disposal to use less MP too. Just play smarter and make sure you aren't overheal often as that just proves to be a huge waste of MP.

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To elaborate on what I meant before in regards to Assize - the more aggressive you are with your heals as WHM, the more lilies you have, the lower the cooldown on this baby gets, the more MP refreshes you get over the same time-frame. And that's alongside Lucid Dreaming.

Three Lilies grants a 20% CDR on Assize, thus increasing the amount of MP restored per minute by about 25% (Assize with CD of 48s means you get 1.25 Assize every minute). For me at 18,726MP this means I get an additional 468MP / minute if I burn 3 GCDs spending Cures to generate three Lilies (which has the potential to overheal) and costs me 1,800MP. I also lose three GCDs worth of DPS (750+ potency) to do this. To me that's not worth the trade off to get Assize off CD faster.