Help with beginner Ast

[OcieKo]

Guess some of the bulk of it was touched. But for your MP regen abilities consider using them earlier rather than later to keep high MP. For example use Lucid Dreaming at around 60% rather than 30%. For cards, try picking your hold card BEFORE your Royal Road card do you can make use of more cards you draw as opposed to throwing cards away to prevent wasting Expand. If your phishing for Balance for example more often than not youll get a Ewer/Spire first, if you use those for MP/TP maintenance as opposed to insta expand you may be able to toss out say a Bole on the Tank and an Arrow on the BLM while your searching for Balance to Expand.

Like the other poster mentioned ABene isnt fantastic for DPS maintenace in general, but a side caveat to that would be when they are guaranteed to be taking a few hits during the duration. First example I think of is the random target multi hits raid bosses get like on Alex Gordias 1 where you know after the first theyre going to eat a few more hits. Once you get to use Aspected Helios most of your DPS maintenace will be covered by that.

Side note on Essential Dignity it was changed awhile back to be a less gradual healing buff, now it just leaps at 50%/25%, it no longer heals for more at say 5/10% hp than it does 20/25%. So while its still true just less extreme on the conditions.