Macrocosmos completely invalidating the P3S heal check is stupid

[eagledorf]

There's been a lot of complaint about WHM being unviable this raid tier. This is true, but to me the even more offensive problem is how broken AST is in P3S, which is kind of a gate for people trying to clear content using Party Finder.

Macrocosmos' tooltip says that it recovers 50% of all damage taken when triggered. I imagine that SE intended that this would give AST not only a strong AoE heal, but an easy way to cleanse Walking Dead from DRK similar to Benediction on WHM.

Unfortunately this means that for mechanics with "certain death" damage like the Death Toll mechanic in P3S, Macrocosmos will recover 100% HP to the entire party. This means that while literally any other combination of healing jobs in the game needs to dump almost their entire kit to handle the mechanic (or use a healer LB), an AST by themselves can handle the mechanic with a single button.

This is really, really dumb. If the mechanic can be handled with a single oGCD there's no point having the mechanic in a fight at all, not to mention how terrible this is for job balance. If SE doesn't have the courage to adjust Macrocosmos, then they should just remove Death Toll from P3S entirely and be done with it.