A summary of healer issues

[Recon1o6]

I'm just trying to get into AST, and I figured I'd ask here what exactly is the 'problem' with the job that is warranting the future rework?

Depends who you ask

If you ask anyone who liked Ast before it got ripped to pieces in shb, then the problem is that SE wants to keep astrodyne while realising through pvp that the cards and time magic are what drew people to the job and trying to fit them in

if you ask anyone who focuses on optimising, its the ogcd bloat

if you ask SE its that its card systems are unpopular (read they acknowledge everyone prefers the old cards) because pvp ast is more popular than pve ast, but at the same time they don't want to pull it back because they know optimisers will cry over not having balance every time

quote from live letter 72
"The job revamp for Dragoon and Astrologian has been pushed to 7.0 but however since each job is different, it cannot simply be compared with Summoner when it comes to the job rework. For example Ninja had huge adjustments during 5.x but they tried to adjust it so that the play feel would remain the same and revamped the system behind the scene, to them, this is also considered as a big revamp as well. The changes to DRG and AST will depend on what is actually adjusted. In case of DRG, they wanted to go all way in unifying/standardizing actions and cut down actions that are bloated.
[09:37]
However, for DRG, they try not to change what the DRG has to do (in other words, its identity) and as for AST it'll be adjustments on the card, as usual. For cards however this will be difficult since if they adjust the cards to not have RNG based on players hated having it to be luck dependant, there will be other subset of players who think "the previous one is better!