Thread: 5.3 changes

Lol who even melds Piety.

I have been playing Astro since HW debuted it. Loved the class then, loved it in SB, love it in ShB.

Having said that I have never taken ast into Savage or even extreme content, but I can say this.

I have never ran into MP issues on Diurnal Sect, ever. It's very strong from a healing perspective. Nocturnal on the other hand, I have typically run out of MP quite often as i'm trying to keep shields up at all times (especially the MT). Aspected Benefic draaaaaiins your MP. Fast! But I have always had Lightspeed to counter the MP costs, and it's on cooldown almost the whole time I play astro. That with lucid, and neutral sect, synastry, countless oGCD skills...man astro is nigh unstoppable. Heals into the "stratosphere"? (bad pun)

Fast forward to 5.3 confused looks abroad, MP regen on draw? 1 min cooldown get MP? I'm hearing you right?... But I get to keep lightspeed insta heals?.... pffft ok....if that's what you wanna do!

5.4 comes out "Royal Road / Spread reinstated" (Takes Minor arcana off toolbar...)

I mean it’s a simple way too nerf astro rdps effectively. Makes the opener way more relaxed but on the other hand costs you in a 10 min fight 6 cards with 8 %. All of these cards are up with other raid buff and even the 90 seconds cds are coverd by them. That's all around a pretty heavy nerf.

Sleeve draw rework is baffling to do divination in opener you will now need to do 30s prepull so you have a card drawn and draw comes off cd but they removed this for classes like sch with prepull aetherflow so its a very very strange change and i doubt se thought it all the way through.

Originally Posted by Mortex

I mean it’s a simple way too nerf astro rdps effectively. Makes the opener way more relaxed but on the other hand costs you in a 10 min fight 6 cards with 8 %. All of these cards are up with other raid buff and even the 90 seconds cds are coverd by them. That's all around a pretty heavy nerf.

Yep. i guess its WHM/SCH meta now.

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

...Clearly, you haven't looked at the standings at all. WHM+SCH is far, far behind AST+SCH and AST+WHM. AST isn't going anywhere.

We're all going in the trash bin 1 year from now when they delete all healers and everyone gets a personal Alphinaud at this rate ^^;

I might switch to Scholar if this turns out to be the start of the AST card system just dying though. I think it's good that they solved the controller issues, but it feels like they just solved it by giving up..

Originally Posted by Synaesthesia

I might switch to Scholar if this turns out to be the start of the AST card system just dying though.

the start was 5.0

Originally Posted by Synaesthesia

I might switch to Scholar if this turns out to be the start of the AST card system just dying though.

As a former Scholar main who still feels kind of attached to the class, I'm not sure 5.x Scholar has anything better to offer.