Thread: Astrologian 5.0 Discussion

Originally Posted by Brandedblade

In that case its strength is its ability to keep healing with ogcds through Malefic and Gravity casts. They're still the healer who looses the least whenever they need to weave. The only thing lacking without the cards would be their personal dps. Which the cards where meant to make up the difference in.

Rubbish. If their personal DPS is lacking then buff their DPS. Cards are cards, they are buffs for the party. Since they are all Balance, they will be thrown on the highest DPS people first, which would be the DPS and the tank(s). Look at https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...s=Any&sample=7 There is 2000 DPS between the worst tank class and AST. Forget "anything but Balance is suboptimal", throwing Balance on AST vs ANYONE ELSE is suboptimal, period.

If you mean so the rest of the party can pick up the slack for AST's lack of personal DPS then I am going to have to be offended. Because that's saying, "Your DPS sucks so do all this frantic card throwing so the rest of your group can do your part for you".

People need to stop holding the cards up as some uber magical thing. They were utility. The entire card-card-card-Div rotation contributes 2% party DPS over the 2m Div-Div window, and that's including the second Divination. They are boring as fuck. Their duration was halved, so it is no longer possible to keep someone buffed continually the way DNC can. Maybe that's why, can't upstage the DPS...