Fix AST's Accessibility Issue

[HyperiusUltima]

Oh just to clarify, I think most of your suggestions are pretty reasonable. Just others - in this thread a little bit, and in other threads a lot more - some of the complaints are system-agnostic and will be here no matter what SE does, because they're essentially saying they don't like RNG. But non-RNG buffs are SCH's thing, so no matter what changes come for AST, I doubt RNG will be taken out.

Back a little more on topic. So I agree targeting can be very messy, RR might be one way to address it; overall I do like that your suggestions aren't a total revert that would bring back all the problems of the old system.

Just one specific criticism: 1k mp for the whole party sounds a bit excessive. It might not sound like a lot at first, but when you consider lucid cycles every minute, and the fairly powerful natural MP regen, throwing in another 1k like that could have quite a bit more swing than it sounds like. If something like that was added - honestly, I'd be a lot more comfortable if it went to RDM or physical ranged or similar, so it's not tied to any particular healer...

You make a valid point. I wasn't sure if it was a viable way for balance, but AST has been lacking in the MP management department since the other two healers have better management. Especially in regards to N.AST, which needs the extra MP. If 1k MP is that much, they could simply just make it 500 MP since that's what a Aetherflow is for SCH. Though in hindsight, we already have WHM that has a ridiculous amount of MP Management(Infinite MP for 12s, Free GCD Healing, Free Instant Cast, etc.) while SCH has to manage a fairy while on GCD and their Aetherflow which is all oGCD.

My guess is what you're trying to say is that if we go over the top on MP Recovery, we basically nullify an issue Healers SHOULD have by design: Running out of Resources, and on top of that people would prefer AST/SCH since N.AST isn't in the best of spots. It doesn't invalidate AST/WHM, either though, but it would make AST a bit more appealing to the raid crowd by doing that simply because of the DPS that MP can provide for certain jobs(extra Despair for BLM in particular should the stars align, since I think limit on MP for it is 1000).

Edit: Also, thanks for clearing that up for me.