Thread: 5.05 Healer Changes

Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

People keep saying AST's been buffed, which its healing potency and gravity DPS potency has, but... why are we not talking about the elephant in the room? /Gestures to drastic decrease of shield potencies/ Not only that but the cards are still shit. It doesn't look like they changed it back to arrow = speed, etc. Celestial opposition still isn't a stun. We haven't gotten back some of our strategic skills. Blahblahblah. I'm happy the healing potencies are higher, but I'm still distressed over everything else.



Scholar may have gotten energy drain (and that's a start), but its DPS skills? Still not there.

Do you realise that changing the potency of Aspected Helios from 100 to 200 while keeping barrier at 250% would be a stronger crit Adlo Deploy with no cooldown?
Do you realise that Aspected Helios shield is now stronger than non-crit Succor?

Yes, when you double something's potency, you decrease the shields.

Cards are not shit, they are better than fish-for-balance. Maybe the removal of the slot machine RNG will bring more players to AST. I am considering it.

Originally Posted by LariaKirin

Do you realise that changing the potency of Aspected Helios from 100 to 200 while keeping barrier at 250% would be of a stronger crit Adlo Deploy with no cooldown?
Do you realise that Aspected Helios shield is now stronger than non-crit Succor?

Yes, when you double something's potency, you decrease the shields.

Cards are not shit, they are better than fish-for-balance. Maybe the removal of the slot machine RNG will bring more players to AST. I am considering it.

I did realise, but what I don't understand is why they had to decrease the shields when the healing potency was the only problem. I get "balance," but AST was always on the low end.



And the cards are shit. There were already tons of AST before 5.0, so it's not like it needed to cater to more of playerbase who didn't already appreciate its design and intended use. Enjoy playing it, with one little buff per person at a time in a party of 8.~ Don't worry, DNC, BRD, and potentially other classes got the AoE buffs down pat. They'll carry your weight as a synergist.

Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

I did realise, but what I don't understand is why they had to decrease the shields when the healing potency was the only problem. I get "balance," but AST was always on the low end.

Aspected Helios
Old: 100 Potency, 250% Shield = 250 potency shield
New: 200 Potency, 125% Shield = 250 potency shield

CO
Old: 100 Potency, 150% Shield = 150 potency shield
New: 200 Potency, 125% Shield = 250 potency shield

CI
Old: 150 Potency, 250% Shield = 375 potency shield
New: 200 Potency, 200% Shield = 400 potency shield
CI is now a 30 sec cooldown crit Adlo Deploy.

I'm sorry for being so unpleasant. I'm just so frustrated with the healer business it's unreal. This fustration has been going on an entire month it's burning me out. I should just stop looking at the healer stuff. There's really no point anymore.

Originally Posted by Sloprano

Been feeling quite blue about these sweeping changes that only seemed to have the singular goal of removing the things I found to be great about my favorite job and we have heard barely any word from SE for the reasoning behind it.

Please consider taking a break to let the mind calm a bit. Why not try the new treasure maps or a completely different game, heard Outer Wilds is great. We've made some noise here and are hoping to get our issues adressed in the coming Live Letter. If not, we'll be back here.

Ah, but you forget. We were asked just a few days ago *not* to ask job/role related questions.