Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
It's brutal if you're aggressively DPSing, have to raise or even misalign your Lucid Dreaming casts. Basically, Astro will bottom out no matter what you do unless the fight has ample enough downtime to make up for it. Dying just makes you want to die again. The big issue is Astro has absolutely no way to recover. Both White Mage and Scholar can effectively relegate Lucid to their backup spell whereas Astro clings to it for dear life. It doesn't help that prior to the forthcoming change, Lightspeed was used for Sleeve Draw because of the sheer amount of weaving you have to do.

Now if you aren't as aggressive DPS wise, it's a bit easier to handle. Raising still hurts far too much relative to the other healers. Personally, I actually wouldn't mind more emphasise put back into resource management but at the moment, it's not fair only one healer has to deal with it while the other two don't.
As, then I'll concede and say it's a reasonable change. Though I guess kinda annoying that Raid balance affects balance everywhere else and negatively so in places. I feel like Raid balance really ought to be a separate thing.