How is new AST feeling?

[Aelin_Ashryver]

The rng on the cards now feels awful coupled with the fact I know I will be unable to get the 3 seal astrodyne in line with the rest of the raid buffs on pull as well since we have no sleeve draw.
I was leveling it with friends last night and it was just frustrating me that because we can no longer play our wrong seal as lord and lady you push yourself further out from your 3 seals at times, redraw gives you the wrong card again most of the time so every time I get to feel the sting of bad luck instead of actually enjoying the job.

If they fix the god awful rng that they decided to move from divination to another skill but make it WORSE, I will be happy as the rest of the job I am quite content with... I don't mind the minor arcana rng as much but its a bit pointless it being on two buttons for drawing it and playing it. If they are gonna make it two buttons they coulda just made on lord and one lady ogcd though .-.

I love the new size of earthly star since I forever had ranged dps standing out in narnia and even with a rescue they would run straight back out my star to die
As usual the animations for astro are lovely.

[SweetPete]

Can someone help me understand something about macrocosmos.

So does using it after a raid wide still register it as well?

[MintnHoney]

Can someone help me understand something about macrocosmos.

So does using it after a raid wide still register it as well?

Using Macrocosmos after an attack does not record that attack's damage for Microcosmos. The issue you're likely coming across is that they want to use Macrocosmos as a oGCD, but it's actually a GCD, so it gets delayed instead of coming out when intended.
It's the consequence of it being the only spell in ASTs kit on a long cooldown, I think.

[Mortex]

Can someone help me understand something about macrocosmos.

So does using it after a raid wide still register it as well?

No. Using macrocosmos gives every party member you hit a buff. This buff stores 50% of the dmg taken (even dmg done too shields) and converts it at the end of the buff or when you recast the spell into a heal equal too the 50 % dmg you took.

[snipski]

I like how ppl said macrocosmos was such an amazing ability before exp launched the WHM 90 flower shits on it so hard, they need to fix the button bloat for sure though.

[Zolvolt]

If you use seal lvl 1 or 2 astro dyne when you have a higher seal level (lets say 3 for example) It actually removes your buffs and applies the new ones instead of just refreshing what you have and leaving the additional buffs alone. Lost my 5% damage buff doing this in MSQ roulette today. I'm not sure why it would work that way tbh.

I'd also like to add that having this many OGCD's is NOT a problem with astro. Please don't cut OGCD's because some people are saying there are too many. The problem is how some of them work, that is all.

[QooEr]

I'd also like to add that having this many OGCD's is NOT a problem with astro. Please don't cut OGCD's because some people are saying there are too many. The problem is how some of them work, that is all.

agree. my problem with so many ogcds is that ast has no weave space to accommodate so many

i think giving lightspeed a charge or a 60s cooldown is in order if ast is going to have so much weaving

[Zolvolt]

This might be a lesser asked for thing but Gravity/Gravity II's radius is slightly too small for being based on the enemy target's hit botx With the other 5 yalm healer aoe's, they are based on the caster's position so that you could position yourself in a place to hit everything. I see all the time targets missed by gravity because a tank doesn't realize they should move it. Even Holy has an 8 yalm radius. That would be really nice.

[The_Distinguished_Anarchist]

Clarifying Draw needs at least two charges.

When playing Astro I draw the same seal five times in a row about 30% of the time.
This means about half of my Astrodyne uses are with all three seals.
One out of every three uses of Astrodyne is with two different seals, and probably 20% of the time I have three of the same seal.

The RNG element was great back when the cards all had different effects and you could adjust your playstyle to account for the hand you were dealt. Now that the whole job is just flat damage increases the RNG feels middling when you get it and crappy when you don't.

If you want an RNG mechanic to determine your damage output, then make Gambler a job.

[TankHunter678]

Potent but still soulless, and still feels like WHM2.0. The card system is the main draw of the job but the card system is horrible to interact with and flavorless. The seal system is showing once again that it was a jurry rig bandaid to not simply toss all the cards out and reduce it to a button that simply grants the target a damage buff.