Thread: Astrologian 5.0 Discussion

Originally Posted by heynowjose

It feels like all healers are essentially the same except our “identity” is preserved by our aesthetics nothing else.

We all do the same except we draw cards that are pretty pointless while the other guy has a fairy. It’s pretty sad

Funny how you completely forgot WHM even exists. Or not, I guess, since it got NOTHING.

This change is unnecessary shit.

Spire was the only card that no longer had a purpose, and that's easy to fix. Could have made it an AoE debuff on enemies. The card game was nice to keep the brain occupied between heals and such, it gives variety. Now? There's no variety, there's no weaving and bending of Fates. Just the Oprah meme with "damage boost".

Is it because Dancer exists that they felt they had to remove the buffing ability of AST? If they want healers to focus on healing they need to remove all those self-heal abilities that they gave the other classes.

Homogenization kills uniqueness, the card changes are super bad and must needs be totally rethought.

i think this is what they mean with being "pure healer" back on live letter.

its not that we are doing heal only, as AST we are going to be busy playing cards in between. the best we can do is just contribute some dot to enemy and back to play cards lol

They might as well have made DNC a healer, because it's not like there're gonna be many people playing heal after these changes. I know I'm certainly changing my main class.

I’ve played Astrologian since Heavensward prerelease, and thought I could love the job no matter what happened to it, but I never thought they’d completely remove the The variety buffing I loved. This is gonna be a very tough change for me to accept this expansion.

So AST needs to clip a bunch of times to get 6% Divination out on 5th GCD from what I understand? You have a total of 4 draws to fish for all 3 seals, and you cannot use cards pre-pull to get seals.

They've exchanged the fun of the class for consistency. The fun of the game was using the cards you were dealt to be most effective, the only thing that needed change was Spire, everything else was a tool in your toolbox that had its place.
Now, yes, the numbers we put out will be better overall but the identity of the class and the satisfaction I feel as a player is taking a major hit, I've mained AST since Heavensward, ShB seems to be the expansion I main SMN.

From the Mr. Happy videos I watch. I feel so sad for all AST. Why remove all the good utility from the class. It like they are now just a shitty damage buff machine. You get 6% damage and you get 6% damage. Everyone gets 6% damage. They are now the 6% damage version of Opera.

I can tolerate all the changes to AST except the card effects.

If they retain the current card effects (except of course spire) with the seal mechanic, I think it would still work and make everything bearable.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

I know the nerfs on the cards are really bad, but...
Has anyone else noticed that Combust III is exactly the same as Combust II?
The devs just keep disappointing...