SCH and AST

[GrimGale]

I have leveled both AST and SCH to 80. Used them both on Extreme content. Here's my two cents:

Scholar:
-Dps rotation is effective but boring. Yes, you basically do the same dps (It's just more tedious and repetitive, especially having to sling Biolysis to each mob when you could spread them with Bane before.) AoW is fine I guess, it's just underwhelming to use and very expensive for what it does. I ultimately wouldn't change much here, maybe adjust some potencies and MP cost since DPS is not the main focus of a healer. (I'd instead focus on improving Scholar's overall support abilities.)
-Fairy Gauge and Aetherflow stacks feel extremely clunky now: Being unable to apply excog pre pull is unnecessarily frustrating. Moreover I often find myself with excess AF stacks that I am forced to dump on overhealing to make efficient use of the manaregen on AF. Fairy gauge is still rather useless, Fairy Union is weak and locks your abilities out during the channeling. Fairy Blessing is allright I guess, though I don't know why it costs Fairy Gauge considering its on a CD.
-Dissipation is now less taxing since it summons Eos back but now stacks are less valuable. In addition the fact that it sends your fairy away is still rather stupid, you are basically locking yourself out of several skills for a 20% healing buff- This problem is aggravated when you take Seraph into the equation. I guess they wanted Dissipation to be a last resort button, when all your fairy and seraph is on CD and you've spent all your AF stacks. I've barely used it so far, maybe twice in all ShB when leveling and Tank pulled more he could withstand. I didn't use it at all in Stormblood. I didin't even have it on my bar)

Scholar's kit feels like it fights itself with a lot of its mechanics.

Astrologian:

-Seals: The fact that you can use cards out of combat and seals only in combat makes it so that I often use cards at the beginning of the pulls only to not get a seal since, while the character I buffed is in combat, my character isn't yet so I lose the Draw CD for the seal.
-Divination: It's clearly a huge nerf to Royal Road+ Balance. While it's more consistent, the fact that it's on a 180 second CD makes it extremely weak. Cards are supposed to be the strong feature of AST- With strong cards I could understand the weak heals overall but that's not the case.
-Celestial Opposition, Collective Unconscious: Extremely low potencies for those very long CDs. CO should be o an a 30s CD. CU should be on a 60s CD. That or simply increase the potencies on both.

Astrologian overall feels weak compared to SCH and WHM. It's strong point, the Card Buffs, is needlessly frustrating and weak. A shorter CD on Divination and higher potencies on the cards would make the job feel more impactful.