Astrologian: what is your understanding about it?

[Kissune]

You seem a little tilted. Maybe you should take a break and come back with a cooler head. Trying to puff your chest out and be the bigger man with forum posters isn't a good look lol Either way I don't really care if you call me a liar or a troll. I'm not either, I've done the content as astro, the job is going in a better direction, and I'm not going to be provoked into revealing my logs and character for you to try and harass a bit more.

Why not? I already know your character, and I don't care enough to go over to Sarg and get myself banned bc someone thinks getting a handful of single target utility skills with a sparkly card reskin that has zero interaction other than 'play' is a 'better direction'. Just want you to prove that you actually do content as AST instead of coming here to troll about a job you only play for the aesthetics of drawing a card, not the mechanics behind it that have existed since HW. But hey, you're the one who's going to love your preferred flavour of white mage. Cards without RNG are just the same old buttons every healer has been pressing since this game came out. No amount of aesthetic or visuals are going to change the fact that playing a card now is the exact same thing as playing any other skill on a 60s CD. And if you can't see that, or understand that, then I don't know what to tell you. It's just plainly clear that you only play this job for the aesthetics and not any kind of flavour. Just because I'm pressing more buttons with a card visual every minute (and thats assuming that fights actually require you to use all your cards. The last time I think I had all my AST spells on CD was blue screen in TOP, and it didn't even matter because there wasn't another raidwide I needed to do anything about for another solid minute. doesn't mean it feels like using cards. It doesn't feel like HW, StB, ShB, or EW. It'll feel like white mage, or scholar, or sage. Because thats all their buttons are. Skills with a CD that you have full control over. No reading the fates, no playing with what the deck gives you. Just the same 4 buttons every minute, if you can even be bothered to press them all anyways.

The class, btw, is losing even more weaves than you suggest. Rn AST has divi, lightspeed, dyne, play, draw, play, draw, play, minor arcana, with the addition of possibly 2 redraws, a held lord, and a second lord. That's 9-13 weaves in one window, with different timings for each. And including a card drawn and played at the 60s window, then drawn, then possibly redrawn. And a minor arcana draw So the card system contributes roughly 13-18 weaves over the course of two minutes. Not including healing oGCDs. Right now? At maximum optimization... Divi, play lord, play held card, draw, play held card, possible divi follow up if its an ogcd. That's 5 at absolute max. One additional draw at 60s. 6 weaves. And then another 5 weaves for each of the utility cards, bringing us to 11 weaves. 11 weaves that include just tossing random single target heals that every healer needs to do anyways soooo it's kinda pointless to include them? It'll be the same amount of healing weaves that other healers have to do, bc AST will be healing the exact same content they will. So it's not high APM, it's not random, it's not really cards beyond aesthetic... So what is it? Oh, right. It's the exact same healing kit we've seen in all 4 healers for years now. It's just going to take our other abilities and slap them with a card visual, and call it a day. Or we'll just have more utility than white mage could dream of but it literally won't matter because content will be balanced around the lowest healing and mit output healers bc they need to be able to clear too. Successful rework! It's either shallow and useless, or bloated and useless. All it cost was your engagement. Please look forward to it!

EDIT: As per your response. In Abyssos I started off playing AST but the static imploded, and the pickings were slim so I just went with the first group that could match my work hours. They already had an AST, so I took up scholar instead. Did just fine on it. I still have savage logs on Abyssos as AST, but you clearly didn't bother checking. In Ana I was bored of healing so I went and did something else as sort of a vacation tier. You can also check that I progged and cleared TEA, DSR and TOP as AST. I did raid pre-EW but I played the game on ps4 with a group of my friends so we had no access to ACT, and when I built my PC and moved to it in 5.55 I didn't see the point in getting fresh new logs on outdated Eden fights. Any more questions or are you just going to keep judging me behind the veil of anonymity~?