Regarding AST

[LachleinStratos]

[QUOTE=Tridus;4565975]Frankly, you need to not be so completely ridiculous if you want feedback other than that you're being ridiculous. Permanent Synastry? Near permanent Whispering Dawn? Really? I mean, come on. What problem are you trying to solve with such large jumps in healing power for 2/3 jobs?

How do you tell what is ridiculous? I dont know when a suggestion can go reach that bar. Let me know so i will try to not get too close to it.

[Ceasaria]

There's no need for these changes honestly, and to change them would basically erase any RNG involved in AST's card system, which would be too much of a buff honestly. It's really only when I use Sleeve Draw that I find myself needing Spread or Redraw when it might be on cooldown anyways.

Yeah that's why I want to solve this problem with my buff, but Redraw would be a bit powerful, I see it now.
Hmmm, just buff Spread then.

[Astrololol]

Honestly, the only change I would make to AST, is to MAKE GRAVITY A LVL 50 SKILL. Can't use it in the majority of trials, because it's locked behind that accursed "wevel fifty twooo" mark. Not until they release more Stormblood trials, anyways.
Edit: Or, ooor let us get rid of a held card, auto holding a spire is...yeah.

[Braven]

Honestly, the only change I would make to AST, is to MAKE GRAVITY A LVL 50 SKILL. Can't use it in the majority of trials, because it's locked behind that accursed "wevel fifty twooo" mark. Not until they release more Stormblood trials, anyways.
Edit: Or, ooor let us get rid of a held card, auto holding a spire is...yeah.

I agree; it is annoying having no AOE at all for level 50 capped content. Getting gravity slightly earlier won’t end game balance but will make AST less boring at low levels. Synastry can be moved up to level 52 and take the place of gravity. AST already has the best low-level healing with essential dignity and high potency heals; synastry is just overkill and isn’t needed at level 50.

Getting gravity earlier will also help make Ewer more powerful since you will need it for gravity spam.

[Ametrine]

AST "needing" and AoE dot is really just an option to improve the job's personal DPS. AST is perfectly powerful in a group with proper card usage, but the worst in the game solo.

I say hold it til next level cap just so we don't have further power creep. I think it'd be more of a QoL improvement. I'd actually the job gain skills that aren't tied into the cards next patch.

Though, the gravity/synastry swap of skills would be a game changer as far as QoL goes for AST!

[Elamys]

Honestly, the only change I would make to AST, is to MAKE GRAVITY A LVL 50 SKILL. Can't use it in the majority of trials, because it's locked behind that accursed "wevel fifty twooo" mark. Not until they release more Stormblood trials, anyways.
Edit: Or, ooor let us get rid of a held card, auto holding a spire is...yeah.

You can get rid of held card. Right click it off in your buffs or use Undraw Spread.

[KDSilver]

Considering the other 2 healers never needeed a skill such as Synastry to heal properly, I totally agree that they should switch it with Gravity.
THIS is a small QoL we could try to ask to dev team. Doesn't affect anything except finally having that aoe at lvl50 and that would be just great.

[basketofseals]

Honestly I don't think permanent Synastry would be that OP provided you're not talking about the healing+ buff that comes with it. It's a pretty wonky and situational CD on its own.

[Braven]

Honestly I don't think permanent Synastry would be that OP provided you're not talking about the healing+ buff that comes with it. It's a pretty wonky and situational CD on its own.

There is no healing buff anymore with Synastry. It just does an additional cure with a potency of 40% of benefict/benefict 2 to the target whenever you cast it on anyone.

It really isn’t situational, it just makes your benefict 2 OP. If you use synastry on the tank (generally always), and then heal them, your beneficts do 40% more healing: 1046 potency without any buffs.

Healing two at once is just an option. You can also use it on the tank for massive healing after tank busters, or just to save global cooldowns by healing once instead of twice in a row. It essentially works like a 40% healing buff.

[basketofseals]

There is no healing buff anymore with Synastry. It just does an additional cure with a potency of 40% of benefict/benefict 2 to the target whenever you cast it on anyone.

It really isn’t situational, it just makes your benefict 2 OP. If you use synastry on the tank (generally always), and then heal them, your beneficts do 40% more healing: 1046 potency without any buffs.

Healing two at once is just an option. You can also use it on the tank for massive healing after tank busters, or just to save global cooldowns by healing once instead of twice in a row. It essentially works like a 40% healing buff.

But that's not something out of the ordinary. Surviving a tank buster is the hard part, never the part that comes after. Fairies even do something similar, but have additional benefits of not being stuck to one target(most of the time).

In practice, this works out to be an extremely minor damage increase at best. I see absolutely nothing overbearing about this. Additionally, it would make their healing identity a bit strong, which imo is completely lacking at the current moment.