We cannot achieve balance while DPS jobs have utilities

[Tunda]

When Astrologian first came out it was literally being sold as ‘an FFXIV buffer/support job’. They then immediately made it their mission to simplify, minimise and reduce the impact of Astrologian cards/support in every way possible with each successive expansion. I.E removing buff manipulation skills like Time Dilation or Royal Road, removing varied card effects, removing rng and rng manipulation, etc.

As for Dancer and Bard, personally I think they should be as close to a ‘pure support class’ as FFXIV can get, but again that a pretty wildly unpopular opinion that I don’t see anyone agreeing with (because I tried up until Stormblood, literally even the devs disagreed with me lol)

Moving Astrologian more into healing was a big mistake..
Now we are suffering of nerfing and buffing dps and healers when we can have simple to balance DPS jobs and supports

Astro have 5% of their kit as support when it should be 50%