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    Ren Thras
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    Famfrit
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    White Mage Lv 100
    Having sat down and looked at it...I think AST can work. There are a few sticky points, but...I think it can be massaged into functioning.

    Buttons I don't have on my bar to fit everything I want:

    Benefic (I have Divination in that spot - I figure if I do low level content, I can slot in Benefic there since I can't use Divination until level 50 anyway, and above level 30, I have Benefic 2 if I need a relatively spamable cure on the Tank in those low level dungeons.)
    Undraw (Does anyone REALLY use this...?)
    Repose (No use in 99% of the content in the game anyway: I could trade something for it for a solo instance if I was desperate, but I doubt I'll ever be.)
    Rescue (The only time I use this on WHM/SGE, where I can fit it, is Hunt Trains, specifically due to Yilan [Thav], both Moon Marks [each has some kind of stun/mesmerize you can Rescue people out of], and MAYBE Haldur in Laby, but have to be quick; I can live without this.)

    I could probably swap out Esuna for 90% of the content inthe game, but at this point I've removed enough things to not need to. Note for Benefic, I've started doing this same thing with SCH Physic <-> Chain Strategem, so it's basically the same thing (SCH can in theory heal low level dungeons without it thanks to Eos but...whatever. It takes less than 15 seconds to swap. Plenty of time before a Sastasha or Tam Tara Tank is going to pull the whole instance.)

    [EDIT: That is, the only time you REALLY need Cure 1/Physic/Benefic is in low level content below level 40 or so. After that, you have better tools. And so you can swap it for some high level ability that you don't get until well after you don't really use Cure 1/Physic/Benefic anymore and be GENERALLY okay. Things like Chain Strategem and Divination you don't have in low level dungeons, and Physic/Benefic 1 you aren't really ever going to use in high level content, so the two being mutually exclusive/hot swapping that hotbar slot shouldn't be a problem. Since the use case is pretty niche of "If you need a quick heal in less than 2.0 sec such that Cure 2/Adlo/Benefic would be too slow AND have no CDs to use OR you never hit Lucid and have 0 MP", which are...pretty much never issues. Especially for AST, which has the best MP economy AND regen of all the Healers. Note SGE does NOT have this easy swap-out with Diagnosis, since that button becomes your Adlo under Eurkrasia so you still need to slot it. Thankfully, though, SGE has good hotbar economy already anyway and doesn't need to.]

    And doing this, I have room for Sprint, Limit Break, and Potion (Mount in the field)

    Everything fits. It's a little awkward (I have Redraw on the second barset, for example, vs Draw and Play on the first...but this is fine). Trying to put the CDs I want to watch and my most often hit buttons on the first set. Will play around some with it later...but I don't think this isn't feasible...I think this setup might work for me.
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    Last edited by Renathras; 01-28-2023 at 04:48 PM. Reason: Edited for clarity.