Thread: Astrologian 5.0 Discussion

I wish they would have at least made it so it is still range / melee but it was a pair or dmg, another of skill speed, another of crit, so there is still some variety, now that we have seals and no royal road there was no need for a pure balance fishing.

These changes are a major disappointment and I will either be swapping to main SMN or just unsubbing altogether, not sure which at the moment.

Either way I won't be healing until these changes are revoked or better ones are put in their place, may the queues rot.

Originally Posted by Rinkalos

These changes are a major disappointment and I will either be swapping to main SMN or just unsubbing altogether, not sure which at the moment.

Either way I won't be healing until these changes are revoked or better ones are put in their place, may the queues rot.

Outside of potency changes I wouldn't be expecting brand new abilities a month before the expansion launches. Healers will be fine, people that enjoy playing healers will play them and those that don't will move on to something else. Also, the forums are the minority even if ever healer that posts here stopped playing healers you still wouldn't notice any decrease in queue times. People love making mountains out of molehills apparently.

Originally Posted by Selova

Outside of potency changes I wouldn't be expecting brand new abilities a month before the expansion launches. Healers will be fine, people that enjoy playing healers will play them and those that don't will move on to something else. Also, the forums are the minority even if ever healer that posts here stopped playing healers you still wouldn't notice any decrease in queue times. People love making mountains out of molehills apparently.

While I do agree with you on a whole, I wouldn't just throw away people's worries about healers currently. Tho yes I do think people are over reactting by a mile.

I'm unhappy, specifically, I am really disappointed. However, I will give the new AST (and SCH) a try. It isn't anything I wanted, but maybe it will play well and match the content. I don't know, but it sure looks bad.

I don't really see the point in fishing for cards for Seals to boost Divination in this system.
Outside of Savage, is there really any difference between 3% and 6%?
Two drops in an ocean is as noticable as one.

Even when optimising, it may not be worth the trouble if redrawing could waste time and potentially result in a worse card anyway.
Your best targets for cards are still your top damage dealers, if your party consists of say, Nin, Sam, Dnc, Rdm, then the clear winner is SAM and you'll want your melee cards every time.

Thinking about it, does this mean that Neutral Sect can be made completely redundant if a SCH uses Deployment? Critlo shields (Catalyse) aren't spread by Deployment so there's good potential for stacking there, but Galvanise still is, so does that mean AST and SCH both render each other's abilities useless?

Previously, choosing Diurnal was a good way to make sure you're still both useful, but, with our l80 ultimate ability using both sects, that now puts us in active conflict with a l56 SCH ability. Seems like a weird decision.

Originally Posted by Suishouhime

Thinking about it, does this mean that Neutral Sect can be made completely redundant if a SCH uses Deployment? Critlo shields (Catalyse) aren't spread by Deployment so there's good potential for stacking there, but Galvanise still is, so does that mean AST and SCH both render each other's abilities useless?

Previously, choosing Diurnal was a good way to make sure you're still both useful, but, with our l80 ultimate ability using both sects, that now puts us in active conflict with a l56 SCH ability. Seems like a weird decision.

This could be an oversight, but the shields on the new Celestial Opposition doesnt specific that it doesn't stack with Galvanise.
So there might be some room there to boost the shield.