Quote Originally Posted by Nihility View Post
the global cooldown on malefic is the same as every skill. How do you know it has a shorter cast time and not know that?
WHM has pretty much everything AST has ogc in shadowbringers and then some and the lilies give them what is basically extra swiftcast+0MP versions of their spells every 30s on top of that

Cards is the only thing setting ast apart atm and they are the epitome of tedium in the currently proposed version
Uh... what?

Cards aren't even why Astro is currently meta. Collective Unconscious is stupidly OP—providing the strongest regen in the game alongside 10% damage mitigation. Earthly Star is almost double the heal potency of Assize and Essential has a shorter CD than Tetra despite nearly healing tanks to full. Couple this with a faster recast time, thereby allowing it to equal or even surpass White Mage's pDPS, and you have a job straight up better. This is especially true in movement heavy fights, which Alphascape had aplenty. The cards just sealed White Mage's fate as being outright inferior.