Concerns with Astrologian in Endwalker

[Silver-Strider]

It's a 'meh' skill, and needs to be looked at even further. If AST and SCH can get by without Thin Air at all, WHM most certainly can get by with the change to it. Lucid addresses about 90% of the MP issues across all casters, and the remainder can be taken care of with Super Ethers as the HQ restores 18%. This is despite the lengthy 5m cooldown. Anything on top of this basically gives the caster a nigh unlimited MP pool that is compromised only when the encounter also becomes compromised.

Nearly all of WHM healing is free, and that along with Assize and Thin Air undoubtedly gives WHM the best MP economy among the healers. I don't see this changing in EW.

SCH and AST have more oGCDs and less costly GCD heals than WHM. The Lily abilities are not comparable to SCH and AST oGCD because they don't come at the cost of their damage, which is all WHM has to offer in a group environment and Misery will be even more of a DPS loss since Glare is getting a potency increase while Misery does not.

SCH lost the MP restore from E.Drain but Aetherflow got buffed to 20% MP restored to compensate
AST lost Sleeve Draw and 3% MP from Draw but got Astrodyne to compensate.
WHM got Thin Air nerfed and NOTHING to compensate for it. In fact, the buff to PoM is even more of a nerf to WHM's MP economy because now we burn thru our MP even faster.

To believe that WHM isn't going to go back to being the worst Healer in the game come EW is ludicrous.