Thread: Everything wrong with 5.3 AST sleeve draw [Translated JP duplicate thread]

I agree. I mained Astro since HW, and even with its flaws then I loved it. Now.....I hate healing, and that's sad cause in every MMO I'm always playing healer. What FF14 has done to healers this expansion has pretty much made ne stop enjoying it. Sure the story is good, and music is top, but when what you love is no longer fun and it lost its identity you lose something also. It's called soul and individuality. Something healers now lack

Its so sad what they have done to Sleevedraw this patch and to the healers in general this expansion. I know there have been complaints to Sleevedraw because of controller issues. But pre 5.3 patch Sleevedraw gave AST a lot of depth and optimization which at the current state none of the other healers could deliver. Changing sleevedraw brought us to this weird situation where we have 3 healers and none of them have barely any depth and are incredibly easy to play( pushing the two same buttons 70% of the fight for almost every fight Savage included).

Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

I'm probably in the minority by now, but I think 3.x/4.x AST was super fun and really didn't need its overall gameplay changed. I had keyboard/mouse friends and friends who played it on controller just fine. The gameplay worked, it wasn't broken, it shouldn't have been "fixed." I really wish they would just revert the class back to 3.x/4.x. Let the Balance fishers fish for Balance. Let the rest of us have fun with the unpredictable and flexible gameplay style that was Astrologian. People don't like to micromanage? Then they can go play WHM. White mage is meant to be the more straightforward of the three healing classes anyway, so the "micromanagey" classes should have been left ALONE. Another good "fix" would have been to implement a second straight-forward healing class for those who don't like to micromanage so they actually had a choice of which healing class to play. But I guess butchering AST and SCH to be more like WHM was the easier option. (I'm not salty. Okay, I'm a little salty.)


I miss my claaaaassss /cries a river of big, fat, ugly tears/ Why are they being so stubborn about this? It's been over a year and the complaints about healers has hardly waned. It just doesn't make sense. It's pretty much all about pride now, and pride to this extent is no bueno.

All of this.