Its actually really funny that less than a day after this video came out, they announced astro changes thats basically answering most of your issues with the class. Adjusting lighspeed recast time and giving it charges will make it MUCH more flexible to use for movement and burst. Changing astral/umbral draw recast times will handle issues with drift, and increased macrocosmos potency will now make it damage neutral vs fall malefic. Now the only ask is to change gravity potency, and replace synestry with time dilation, and youve got a brew going.

I don't hate Arrow for having a 'increased healing received' effect I hate the Arrow because it should have been the Ranged damage card instead of the Spear

I don't get why they added 1s CD between cards, the fact that you can't double weave them felt so clunky to me.

ucob mentioned!! spear being a ranged buff now gives me whiplash everytime i see it

Pour one out for the chocobos that can't be buffed by the Balance or the Spear currently.

Can't believe they pushed back the "Overhaul" multiple patches and then a whole expansion and this is what they came up with..

10 bucks says he never makes the sage and white mage videos just like last time

Not only do I give spear to melee because of reflex but I also instantly still draw at the beginning of instances. Overwriting both Lord AND Balance. Like i would have rather they just give us sleeve draw back.

Was hoping for more like, defensive/dps/other for cards. So like one card could make the target move fast (like an extra sprint), one card could extend the buff time of your buffs, including cards. That plays nicely into the time mage feeling too... Would trade an ED charge for a lightspeed charge...

The thought of the cards is pre 50, You gain so much more kit lower level. After 70 it hits drop off cause your getting more and more stuff that is just the cards you had 30-70.

My biggest problem is how bad it feels when I don't have a reason to use the utility cards. At some point you either just throw them out for shits'n'giggles or overwrite them (as you already do in the opener). I think this would only get worse the more gear everyone has.

I swear they increased gravity's range. Prepatch enemies had to be kissing for gravity to hit more than two. Now I am nuking entire groups without having to prod the tank to geoup them tighter.

I'm crossing my fingers. On release in ShB Astro was *rough*, but the tweaks it got really helped it. I mean right now it really works, but it feels like MacGyver put it together with a thumbtack and a potato. Russet, in case you were wondering. 😂

Pre-DT Asto was more fun, I miss it

They probably chose this version of the card system as a crutch for people who couldn't play around the "time mage" parts of AST's kit. If you get a bunch more instant ogcd healing and mit tools then its not quite as punishing when you don't know how to use Earthly Star properly. (That, or they didn't really think about these changes before finalizing, which also seems possible).

I'm still bitter about the HW cards being gone and it's been 6 years.

It really just feels like AST gets more OGCDs, as opposed to anything really interesting requiring card weaving. I love the effects, but it feels so bland...

Is it true that they literally had no decent healer designer to manage this stuff

Is Astro strong? Yes. Is it fun? Not for me personally. I came back to the game when astro released because I loved the card fantasy. Now, as you mentioned, it feels tacked on. I may adjust to it over the expansion, but right now I don't enjoy it

As I feared, I do not enjoy these cards after a week of play. They could have been much more interesting and not be lower potencies of already existing abilities. The only hope I'm clinging onto now is the combat design (which has been really fun so far in the dungeons and EX trials) and the changes to lightspeed and card recast times that they posted on the lodestone earlier today.

would changing astral/umbral draw to 55 second cooldown help with the drifting. also hope they change light speed to 60 seconds instead of 90

Nice! Just saw they posted in Lodestone their plans for further Ast changes for 7.01 looks like were getting a lot of fixes folks called out for, happy to light speed cd change and charges, thats going to be very nice.

Appreciate the balanced (no pun intended) coverage of this from a thoughtful perspective with detailed examples to back up what you are saying.

Is there any case where stacking both the balance and spear one dps better than using it on different melee/ranged?

The only card that feels moot with 2 stacks of noct already existing is the spire, although I'm not sure what form of mit could take its place. Maybe a proc when the shield breaks?

wait but sun sign is level 100. you wont be able to use it in TOP and DSR

Wait, does the arrow work with oGCD heals? I always thought it was GCDs only. So if it says action it's oGCD too?

Would you be interested in doing a video over your current HUD. I'm looking for a change and/or some ideas and I like your setup.

I pref the new cards makes things a little more interesting. But also its better than the last two expantions for me as i miss my old gutted stormblood astro. Its a welcome change for me. 😊

Surelly the next rework will be the one! *Copium*

Hi Momo, can you show up your macro card ?

Nice, i can listen to this :D

I just can't get behind this card system tbh, I already know how Im going to play my next 3 cards before I even hit draw its just sad. I miss the reactive gameplay this class used to have, now its just a slapped down watered version of aetherflow tied to 2 tank CD's and a dps card...ontop of this the cards are (mostly) already copies of oGCD's that AST already has....

What’s that robe you’re wearing that looks like it’s has a scarf

Will somebody tell me something AST is better at than the other healers so i can cope please

Differents of opinions or conversations

4:50 I understand what you mean with the arrow, but come on now, it's tedious beyond belief for a 10% healing increase on 3 actions every 2 minutes

i gave these changes a chance but damn after reaching lvl 100 im already kinda bored of the job.....the healing cards are giving they don't know what to do with astro

I miss my slot machine. the fact you don't have to respond to anything and could play all your dps cards with an auto hotkey script sucks.

The cards do more than just buff dmg!? SHOOT I BEEN PLAYING ASTRO WRONG

waiting for SGE

Compared to before, it feels worse recovering mana after dying. Before I would usually be able to draw right away (sometimes even twice), now with bad timing I have to wait almost a minute to draw for mana.

Bring Time Dilation Back!

They should remove the damage cards to give us freedom to hold or choose when we want to use the cards. Because the DMG cards, we need to keep draw on CD making us discard some utility.

Ast going from the most mobile healer to the least mobile healer shows that they have no idea what they want to do with ast.

Man at the rate they’re designing jobs, next expansion all cards are gonna end up targeting all allies

It's slower and clunkier now. Cards don't feel like a core component, more tacked on. This was my main for healing, but no more. It feels awful now.

bit of a bummer to hear. I have not raided with astro, but I enjoy playing it, and while I liked the idea of cards with different effects instead of just damage buffs, its unfortunate that their usage doesn't feel particularly interesting.

I hear that our lvl 100 capstone ability is kind of just...under whelming

Nice!

casual players never necessarily hated the cards in a bubble, so much as they generally dislike single target ogcds on party members that you *have* to press, because they usually end up drifting their gcd from not being able to select a party member, press the button, and tab back quickly enough (which is why PF white mages sometimes act like pressing benediction requires like three seconds of downtime). this version of AST not only doesn't solve that, it actively made it worse!

Yeah I’ll stick to to my wmh/sage this exp 😔

I like the idea of the cards but they needed to be different buffs they just seemed so generic and bland

I was a long time astro main, with dawntrail i fully dropped astro. Maybe some like the change, but its not for me. Its sad but thats what they decided to do, so i simply play a other job.

I am not a fan of changes, just switched over to playing white mage and sage

I levelled AST to 100. I was kinda looking forward to the changes before I played it, but now after leveling I think theyre just ok, maybe not really worth the effort of changing the job lol. For now I would really like Draw to be 55ish sec instead of 60 because the drift was my biggest challenge in trials. Also side note on SGE - people were kinda meh about Philosphia but I love healing people from far away now. This was a pain point for me on SGE in anabaseios .

The class feels adjacent to how it felt in stormblood. I personally enjoy the class as a whole in Dawntrail since what drew me to the class was how it was set up in stormblood.

The true crime is the "gravity" that is the disparity between WHM and AST. All of this functionality loaded, yes arguably you need to be good with it, but the potential of what is available in comparison is believable only due to the lack of faith in their ability to line up class balance. I think its awesome Momo was able to point out the theoretical effectiveness of mitigation and its something WHM has been sorely lacking in comparison. While the doubled up mitigation might not be "needed" in said comparison, the fact its there doesn't sit well with me. I think someone in the office really loves AST and just wants to overload them or keeps dipping their hands into the pure healer pot leaving WHM with the scraps lol.

Bad. Wait till a few patches.

Im seriously not trying to be a shitter but it's yoo-er, not oo-er. like a female sheep (ewe = you). Know its pedantic but I was sooo distracted by it every time it was said 😭 Im gonna have to watch it again so I guess momo really won here lmao

Im kinda tired how people complain abt the class where i feel bad for the devs trying to please the community when they changed ast like they reworked the class probably 3 times now? Including DT release. Bunch of whiny bbies man.

So bottom line, the class requires you to pay more attention, and losers and bad players are the ones who will be complaining about it. Got it.