So 5.08 is coming tomorrow, do you expect any changes to AST?

[IanFrench]

I do.

I sincerely hope SE could address the current issue with AST sooner than later. For example,

Clunky card system (especially for console players),
poor card potency,
poor self dps potency,
poor mp sustainability, and yeah,
why Horoscope cannot take effect automatically ? I thought SE has learned the lesson from SCH's Excogitation!

[Hatstand]

I do.

I sincerely hope SE could address the current issue with AST sooner than later. For example,

Clunky card system (especially for console players),
poor card potency,
poor self dps potency,
poor mp sustainability, and yeah,
why Horoscope cannot take effect automatically ? I thought SE has learned the lesson from SCH's Excogitation!

I don’t. Or at least nothing significant. I think if they had anything planned for 5.08 or 5.1 they’d have mentioned it in the live letter. If AST is getting any changes it’ll probably be after they’ve finished the changes to NIN, SMN, SAM, and WAR that they’ve already announced.

[Mesarthim]

Well they haven't had a particularly great track record acknowledging healers thus far. Dunno why I'd expect them to now. They only buffed AST back at savage release because of how undertuned it was (which could've been avoided if they'd spend more than a few minutes balancing healers).

I've mostly just stopped having expectations.

[Brandedblade]

I'm not expecting anything in 5.08, but if anything it'll most likely be 5.1 before we see anything. But nah, ast is fine, it only really needs number tweaks so its rdps is more competitive.

[Seraphor]

AST doesn't need any potency changes, besides maybe CU, and I don't expect 5.08 will bring anything but potency changes. Just waiting on some mechanical changes in 5.1.

I'm just hoping for some RDM buffs tbh.

[Billythepancake]

I wouldn't expect anything significant until at least 5.1, but for healers? I wouldn't expect anything at all, tbh. Potency adjustments are the only thing we may get at this point. Doesn't matter how loud we are, our issues aren't half as important as DPS issues to SE.

[SaberMaxwell]

AST doesn't need any potency changes, besides maybe CU, and I don't expect 5.08 will bring anything but potency changes.

I'm just hoping for some RDM buffs tbh.

Prob won't see any RDM buffs so long as devs believe raise is worth a gigantic DPS tax like we've got now.

[Seraphor]

Prob won't see any RDM buffs so long as devs believe raise is worth a gigantic DPS tax like we've got now.

But RDM wasn't this weak in SB, and it still had spammable raise, it was even less punishing. This was only 9 weeks ago!

But even so, they could address this by changing Dualcast into "reduces cast times by 5s."
This would mean Verraise would have a minimum 5s cast time with Dualcast, and you'd need Swiftcast to use it effectively, while still being technically better than SMN's Resurrection at 8s.

[HyoMinPark]

Pretty sure 5.08 is only addressing NIN and maybe SAM? There was no mention of changes/buffs to any of the other jobs—those two were the only ones specified for adjustments in this upcoming patch.

[Seraphor]

Pretty sure 5.08 is only addressing NIN and maybe SAM? There was no mention of changes/buffs to any of the other jobs—those two were the only ones specified for adjustments in this upcoming patch.

Wasn't this in answer to a question specifically about NIN and SAM damage?