Thread: Astrologian 5.0 Discussion

Originally Posted by gumas

just personal 2 cents...

- divination should have less cooldown, a 6% increase for 180s CD is too much, i say 120s is good for 6%. or maybe the opposite, 180s for 10% increase.
- i think you should get your card seal even when you are not in combat
- there should be a card seal combo for more in depth play feature, like a 3 sun seal will net you something. right now the card system is very basic, blue card = melee/tank purple = magic/range thats it.
- maybe up the cure potency for celestial opposition a little more.

Simple changes that would make a lot for this job.

Card system is ridiculous right now.

Originally Posted by gumas

- there should be a card seal combo for more in depth play feature, like a 3 sun seal will net you something. right now the card system is very basic, blue card = melee/tank purple = magic/range thats it.

This is another thing I wanted to reply to but then didn't want to double post, I'd love to see the Seals adapted into a roulette system, utilizing different seal combinations for different effects. This is really an amazing idea.

Once you get all 3 seals, you will have to turn into minor arcana the rest of your draws adding an extra button press.

Also, I find myself wasting a lot of time playing cards now... specially when I use Sleeve Draw. This wasn't an issue in 4.0 at all. It just shows how bad this changes were planned... if planned at all.

The class is honestly amazing at it's role now but it's also equally boring. It was dumbed down into oblivion. It will probably be my main healer once I get it to 80, but I doubt I will be actually healing all that much in this expansion unless my group ABSOLUTELY needs a healer. It's just so painfully dull now. I'll need to set alarms to wake me up when fights are over.

Or just revert the changes completely. Instead of nerfing SCH and oversimplifying AST they should have just buffed WHM up to their level.

Where are people getting these MP problems from? I'm thoroughly curious because I've seen a lot of people complaining about AST MP yet here I am that just recently hit 80 and finished MSQ with little issue.

Lucid Dreaming is available every minute now and Lightspeed lasts longer (and Essential Dignity doesn't need to crit anymore to reduce Lightspeed's cooldown.) With 2 charges Lightspeed is also up fairly quickly. Piety also helps with MP regen.

I agree with all the other problems AST has (boring cards, broken Play button, underwhelming new spells with long cooldowns) but I just don't see the MP issue people are having.

Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo

This actually makes me happy to hear, as originally I was thinking Neutral Sect would basically be useless for the reasons you described (SCH in the party, shields not stacking). Glad to see that's not the case, it makes the AST capstone ability a lot more useful, even if I still think it's a bit boring design-wise.

Neutral Sect is actually what I was really hoping AST would get in this expansion. But also this change and the changes to cards make double AST not as dreadful anymore. So that's gonna be nice.

Originally Posted by Stellafreyja

Neutral Sect is actually what I was really hoping AST would get in this expansion. But also this change and the changes to cards make double AST not as dreadful anymore. So that's gonna be nice.

Double AST was only ever and issue if both healers were tomatoes and didn't decide on opposite sects before the fight began. Which can still happen, by the way at non lvl 80 content.