Thread: 4.3 AST changes/speculations

Originally Posted by Yuyuka3

The only healer that needs any buffs at all is WHM... as it stands, we can't hold a candle to what the other two healers bring to the table, and I'm SICK of getting asked to switch to AST because it's better. And don't even start with "oh, best heals!". We all know that argument is bulls.

How about some nerfs for AST instead? Now THAT's something I would love to see... though it will, if any of the two, be buffs because SE are just awful with stuff like that.

Statistics in the raid community don't back up this stuff you are saying.

https://www.fflogs.com/statistics/21#class=Healers

#of parses in the last 2 weeks (as of this post):
Scholar: 42,563
White Mage: 40,233
Astrologian: 23,301

SCH and WHM each have almost double the amount of participation in sigma savage. I don't have previous week data but I've been keeping an eye on it and AST has always been below SCH and WHM in participation by quite a bit this whole tier so far.

I'm not saying AST needs a buff because of this...I main AST and besides maybe a bit more pDPS like an instant spell Stella to weave I don't think they really need much, but the statistics show AST is under represented by almost half..

I also play WHM too and never been asked to switch to AST.

So maybe you are playing with the wrong people?