YES, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES, Astrodyne is literally what astrologians that actually used all cards and not just balance used it for. The cards worked to change the feel of your rotation. Self Arrow is back babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
The cards are now complete auto-pilot. Astrodyne may as well be a 90s cooldown with random effects. What they should have done was remove seals and make the cards give Royal Road buffs to the Minor Arcana, then you'd have to fish for different cards depending on the situation.
Self arrow, self ewer, bole buff sorta, old lord and lady is back. Though the 10 min and still no lord thing...I swear that was a Stormblood thing too. I feel like it's 51% lady 49% lord lol
I actually dislike how everyone pretended it was Balance or nothing. Sure, that may have been the case for high end raiding, meanwhile, I made every blm happy with Spear, bard with Arrow, and war and sams go bananas with their aoes using Spire
Kinda seems like astrodyne is kinda meh to me. Almost irrelevant at this point. Divination is an auto button now with no conditions behind it and astrodyne only applies to the AST. Don't know if I even care to sift through cards to get seals just to give myself a buff.
@@HeroUnit210 Getting two different seals (which is all but guaranteed) gives you haste, which is a huge boost to your personal DPS and healing ability. Fishing for three seals isn't worth it, but Astrodyne is still very nice.
All of the classes I've seen so far have huge, new, flashy animations. But it's really cool to see the direction they went with Astrologian! The spell effects are very stylish, delicate, and fit to scale with level 90 Astro!
"Neutral Sect" still bugs the hell out of me as a name. Its just so bland sounding! Why not call it something like "Eclipse Sect" to imply both Diurnal and Nocturnal?!
@@huntermccaskill3938 Everytime I see the healer changes I slowly realise just how little the dev team plays the healers. Undraw still being in the game is total nonsense. Like. It does nothing.
I freakin love how many delayed healing mechanics we have now (in a month), it really fits the "read the future in the stars/prescient planning" thing! Earthly Star was already our coolest ability imo, and we're getting a variant of it that looks even cooler?? Sign me the hell up!
It’s a double edge sword because I love I can be lazy with delayed heals but then memorizing each move and timing. I resort to whm style healing whilst my delays are up for a waste in overhealing. 😔
@@CupidCrux well the thing with the delay is you can actually trigger it early but usually for a lesser amount. To get the full effect you mostly have to wait for the end duration. At least for earthly star. I do feel the delay heal is more of what makes ast unique now and not so much the cards.
Dude the healing potential on Macrocosmos is insane. With heavy raid wides like Terminal Relativity from E12s that shit is gonna be a party wide benediction. Obviously if the party is shielded they wont take as much dmg, which means the Microcosmos activation is gonna heal for less. I can definitely see speedruns utilising less shielding/dr to allow Macrocosmos to do party benediction lol.
You also need to survive. In order to get an aoe bene, you'd need to take enough damage to die twice first, heal enough to not die from that, and still need the bene? Where do you need that much healing within 12 seconds :o I mean it sounds really good, just not in that scenario.
@@Elidan1012 JWaves. Each pulse can do up to half of everyone's HP every 2 seconds once Brute gets up to 5 stacks. Or the JKick right before that, which kills without shields or party mit. So if you set it up there, AST could solo heal the first 4 JWaves with just oGCD's. Granted, I don't think AST will have all these tools at level 80 to use in TEA. But the idea is there.
@@xivCatumin I don't see it, granted, I don't know the fight. The first wave takes 50% hp, stores 25% hp to heal. The next wave will wipe, so you need to heal a bit. Second wave takes 50%, 50% is now stored. If you healed anything less than 50% after the first wave, then you could trigger the skill here and to mitigate 1 wave I guess by healing everyone by 50%. If not, you now you a truck load of healing to not die by next wave from somewhere else, which was my point before as well.
@@Elidan1012 My proposal would have Macrokosmos only cover one wave, where you would use something like Cure 3 + Indom or Succor or Helios etc. Instead you could just have Macrokosmos pop and not need to heal a wave. Which doesn't sound like much but is actually huge. Currently with WHM/SCH (I've actually not run TEA with an AST), you need: Two Mega Holy's that kill without Addle + Reprisal + shields or some other mit Preshield Crit Spreadlo Jkick Cure 3 + Succor Wave 1 Medica + Succor Wave 2 Medica + Succor Wave 3 Medica + Swift Succor + Indom Wave 4 Cure 3 + Succor + hard clip Soil Wave 5 etc In that scenario, depending on how long Macrokosmos builds it's heal, you could use it to save MP to heal Jkick by having it build during Mega Holy. Or have it build across several waves and not have to heal one. I'm not proposing to use it as a party bene, but it is still huge and could save you and your cohealer a ton of MP.
Missed opportunity to rename "Aspected Benefic/Helios" into "Diurnal Benefic/Helios" but I guess it's because Neutral Sect still exist but oh well I'm still happy with these new AST changes
My sister said she wanted some of the old skills back but I didn't know what they were. I'm really curious how AST will flow now with all these cool changes * - * I'm so glad they changed Lord/Lady I found myself barely using them due to the seals. Very nice very nice * - *
I use the Lord/Lady in dungeons, when I already got all the seals I wanted for the next boss or when I had both moon seals already and didn't get a sun despite redrawing thrice... thx rng xD
You use lord / lady arcana when you have all of the skills *or* you have enough time for another card pull to go for a seal you needed but needed to throw a card away. Honestly I find this a step down from the old lord /lady.
Gosh. Gravity II having six Gravities orbit enemies is ridiculously cool. And everything looks so beautiful - this expansion has made me fall in love with AST again as HW did before it.
I always preferred the old Malefic animation where it looks like a star falling into the enemy. The current Malefic animation looks too abstract for me. Are we summoning stars out of the enemy? Are we summoning stars to emit heat energy? I dont know how we are doing damage. But Fall Malefic looks like two shooting stars are pulled into a gravitational well, crashing into each other and its beautiful.
And to think I loved AST before when I got into Heavensward some months ago... these changes look amazing and something I'm very much looking forward too.
Astrodyne gives one, two, or all three buffs based on seals, not just one. They are granted in order and the third is dmg and heal potency up. Just clarifying.
Astrodyne reminds me a bit more of Stormblood AST cards, so that's neat. But the overwhelming sense of grief I feel knowing Noct stance is gone just... This kills the man. ;-; Also... Not a fan of the wrap and extremely wide bellbottoms combo, yikes. The weapon looks interesting, though. Having Lord and Lady on their own draw... kind reminds me of Spread, only without the Royal Road option... I don't hate it, but it was always nice to burn a card with an unwanted seal by playing Lord or Lady, or to use that when you have a full set of seals but Divination was on CD. At the very least, looks like Astrologian remains the prettiest of the jobs to play, and we love to see it~ Macrocosm looks dope as hell. I wonder, did they make Earthly Star easier to see? That's the only QoL desire I have, because it's very easy for party members to not see the circle against light backgrounds, and we hate that. Well, that and a gap closer, but I guess AST ain't cool enough for that QoL change. :| Anyway.... I hope it is fun to play. I powered through the god awful changes to the cards in Stormblood, I can power through the loss of the very best stance, I am sure....
Astrologian's new Astrodyne ability is going to keep me playing AST 15s MP restoration, 10% reduction in cast time, 5% damage increase and healing potency and you can double that with Lucid Dreaming and you'll never suffer from MP issues.
I'm actually a little sad. As an "only occasionally dabbling in AST" player, I haven't committed the cards to memory yet and was using the Lord/Lady procs to basically tell me whether a card is Melee or Ranged. Now that Lord/Lady are a different ability altogether, I no longer have that visual shorthand.
@bruno wrong. Ewer is blue and is ranged. Bole is green. Spear is blue also. None of what you say applies. Theres only a few cards. Memorize the name instead to decide who gets the buff.
Astrologian easily has some of the most beautiful animations and effects. I was drawn to it because I love stars and it remains my favorite healer. (Plus making the Sharlayans mad in the quests was fun lmao)
@Colin Deal sleeve draw being gone is what really screws it. 5% more damage for 15 seconds is hardly enough for something that you'll realistically only get once every other stack of 3 seals. Idk why SE is afraid to just buff that up to at least 10%. 3 seals is going to be at least 90 seconds and new AST is going to be screwed by RNG harder than ever since there's only 2 redraws to unscrew your seals. Seems like just such a small pay off for an ability that is already hamstrung by more RNG dependence than ever.
Of the three existing healer jobs, I like the changes for this one the most; there’s more wanted DPS variety added, the card mechanics are improved to me, and the new abilities look really interesting too. I’ll probably be playing this and Sage the most when it comes to healer jobs in Endwalker.
@mellowmink Ast got nerfed hard. Lol. What are you even talking about. Cards dont give mana anymore. They took nocturnal/diurnal away. Cards are straight %dmg. Dog shyt. Ast is now brain dead whm with cards. They took whats unique to Ast and destroyed the card system.
I started playing after Shadowbringers and I was bummed that I never got to try out the more complex card system. Not gonna lie I was VERY nervous for Astro but I am *extremely* okay with this. Very excited to level it up
I mean to be honest it's never gonna go back to how it was in Stormblood, because it doesn't fit the devs' vision of healing anymore (and if I remember correctly it made ast impossible to balance due to the randomness). But for what it's worth I and many others did really enjoy the insane lottery mini game that we had, with all the cards doing different stuff, and praying for balance to drop. It was really exciting (and distracting), and I let more than one teammate die because I was trying to galaxy brain my cards as best I could xD Still, it makes total sense that they changed it, and even though I still miss these janky ass cards(have you seen stormbloos ast opener like wtf), now that it's super streamlined it's still fun!
I think astrodyne will be pretty brainded though, there's like a 60% chance to get 3 seals for it and we'll just press it regardless for the gcd increase and mana, 5%dmg isnt crazy.
@@shaetane SB AST was the perfect balance of excellent support and solid healing if you were A: good and B: lucky. Terrible RNG but good gameplay still let AST feel good and indulge in my gambling addiction but wagering my parties lives instead of money. New AST has more fun mechs for the healing, but the whole novelty of them as a support healer is almost completely gone and they've been turned into star white mage. They look cool and I'm sure they'll be fun to HEAL with, but nothing will compare to those frantic SB 70 second expanded balance openers or enhanced boles for tank busters or expanded spears with battle lit. We went from the batman of healers to being white mage's Robin in 1 expac.
@@matrinezkevin11492 Yeah it felt really good which is why people miss it, but I imagine it really wasn't sustainable when the devs are trying to make all jobs as perfectly balanced as possible. I agree the franticness and adrenalin from juggling the SB cards is definitely gone, however I find you a bit harsh saying we are "white mage's robins" now aha. We have, and are getting more of, multiple very powerful ablities to "forecast" healing, on top of notably the already awesome earthly star. We don't have the raw GCD output of WHM but our oGCD tools are insane, and feel so good to pull off properly because of the planning around it! I'm super excited for the new Starfall thing that's totally going that direction. Now I still think healers are the role the XIV devs are struggling the most with, especially comparing to the amazing diversity of healing possibilities in WoW (from holy paladin to mistweaver to discipline etc. etc), but I'm still enjoying it and I hope they figure it out someday aha!
@shaetane yea but the point you made just proves his point. Ast is now brain dead easy as whm. Gone are nocturnal and diurnal sect. Theres no more flexibility of Ast in 8 mans. Ast cant switch roles as shielder vs regen healer. Gone are the complexity of buffs. They nuked the whole card system. Alot of Ast have quit becos of this asinine change alone. Its equivalent of how they nuked the bard ballads in stormblood. Bard went from awesome to dog shyt overnight. Thanks square enix! (Sarcasm). Ast lost a unique identity.
I still want my Nocturnal (Shield) Sect. From what I can see, they only removed it because it wasn't potent enough. I could make either stance SING all through-out the last half of Shadowbringers and I loved being able to adjust to either role based on my partner. The rest, I will take though! (Yes, I am salty about the removal of Noct. Sect.)
I'm salty about removing Nocturnal Sect too. That was my absolute favorite, and my preferred way to play AST. I still swapped to Diurnal to accommodate a scholar co-healer, but if I was on my own, I used Nocturnal exclusively, and always performed well with it. Beyond that, the new changes do sound fantastic, and I'm still excited to continue playing it.
@@Road_to_Dawn Nocturnal was really nice for babysitting sprouts who don't know mechanics. It'd give me a full 20% on top of their HP bar that I could play with. Also, pre-pull shield on the tank made it so that I wouldn't pull aggro like a regen would. I'm hoping that I can still make some use of what shields we have left in our kit to cover what I currently use them for.
I...I have hope... I was so worried they were gonna gut astro again and even tho I am hella unhappy with the removal of our shielding the fact we get our cards back has peaked my interest.
I'm pretty new to AST (and the game in general), but I'm kinda hoping they still pull out (ha) some card changes. I was super excited to unlock astrologian, but was kinda disappointed when I found out basically all the cards did the same thing. Imo the cards were what really drew me in, and the lore played it up as well, saying that you're carving the future when you draw the card. But it just applies basically the same buff no matter what card it is. Kinda a let down tbh. I'm sure it gets better with levels, but the fact the cards feel so samey is sad to me.
Yeah, each card used to have a different effect, like Arrow increasing skill speed IIRC, and Bole being damage reduction. Balance used to be a damage buff, so many players would draw cards exclusively to try to get Balance. Because of that, the devs changed every card to be a damage buff, since that's what it seemed the majority of players were trying to do anyway. The way the Lord and Lady function with these 6.0 changes is actually pretty much the way they used to behave in the past as well, instead of being the bigger-than-normal-cards damage buffs they were in Shadowbringers.
As one of the healer mains that’s been salty about all the healers being gutted in Shadowbringers🤬 this put a small smile on my face that they gave us back both the lady and lord skills along with a couple of our old buffs… I will still miss the complexity that cards use to have in Heavensward and Stormblood but the changes here seem interesting. Gonna hold my breath on the thought of me not having to spam the same skill until I need to heal or use a card.
Uh no. Ast lost alot of mana regen skill from card system. The straight dmg buff is now brain dead buff. Ast got nerfed hard. They lost the unique identity and got shyt in return. They gave Ast nothing. They deleted alot of Ast abilities and gave them shyt in return. Diurnal/nocturnal is gone. Ast got nothing in return.
My list of changes needed. Clarifying redraw- should grant a different seal after lv 70. To make up for lack of sleeve draw. Minor Arcana- keep it as a way to upgrade cards when maxed on seals. This makes it fit so people can realistically draw both Lady and lords.
I know that people are gonna complain on the lack of rng mitigation on Ast again like they did on SB. Removal of sleeve draw, somewhat restricted draw and redraw and minor arcana rng is gonna mess up Asts a lot in fights.
@@CupidCrux AST is usually pathetically dookie weak on their own so they rely entirely on buffing their party to be able to get anywhere near the DPS of other healers. Making it so that you may just get so dicked on seals that you start doing culinarian tier levels of damage is silly. Unless Malefic and combust got FAT potency increases to be much closer to Glare and Dia then we've got another ShB AST launch situation where the job is borderline unplayable while WHM can roll their forehead across their keyboard and do everything you do but better. Sounds like fun
Since not 1 media tour invitee showed off hrothgar gear I guess Im playing ast over whm in endwalker. Hrothgar got the warrior helm where viera didnt so maybe we did get more hats Idk nobody found out on our behalf 🤪
I actually love the seals change, because it actually encourages you to try getting different seals, instead of just whatevering it for a whooping 1% difference in Divination's buff nobody without a parser would even notice.
Sounds like it'll be be pure pain with the sigils now that we can't minor "bad sigil" and having a single redraw, but at least everything is really really cool. And pretty, don't downplay how pretty everything is.
Ppl on the balance discord mathed it out and we'll get like a 60% chance 3 seals for each astrodyne, and 90% for 2 seals. Regardless we'll probably not wait to improve our seals and we're just gonna press astrodyne on cd for the MP and gcd speed
@Colin Deal I agree with the both of you and I came to the same conclusion, but I just wanted to point out it sounds kind of uncomfortable how we have even less control now. I want to make it clear I didn't mean it as a bitching or anything, regardless of the result it's free delicious new buffs and the mana is guaranteed.
Wait, is Astrodyne a self-buff or can you cast it on a party member? The way it was worded I thought it was a self buff but there are some comments saying how its close to the old card system
It's similar to the old card system in that it's bringing back some of the effects of the original cards: Ewer "(mp regen), Arrow (haste), and Balance (dps increase)
@nekonomicron NOPE. Ast card system is a straight buff. Theuly didnt bring back shyt. They took alot of abilities from Ast and nuke them hell of them. Ast is no longer unique and lost their identity with diurnal/nocturnal sect. Ast got the nerf stick.
It's driving me crazy I swear every single video I see, in the middle of Sharlayan in the day, has that same snippet of that divine track... I trying so hard to find the complete song and I can't 😅 Did the FXIV dev team seriously make all the UA-camrs ONLY include that 30 second sample??
Larry one comment ... I like how you made every single video simple and easy to understand BUT the Discord alarm in every single one fo them ... seriously. Still Thank You for the work.
Lol if you can draw lord or lady before a pull then get ready for 60 second pulls especially since getting a lord would be key before going into a fight for a good boost of damage if you get 2 lords
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"I tried to draw lord for 15 minutes and never got one" classic AST.
That's how Astrology works.
Me only getting ranged cards with a samurai and dragoon
Never change please
working as intended
I love this.
Yooo the old card effects came back with asyrodyne. Good guy yoshi p
but it only applies to the ast
Even better >;D
Astro: "what you don't want these fun buffs and just want dmg up? Find FU! I'll keep them to myself!"
YES, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES, Astrodyne is literally what astrologians that actually used all cards and not just balance used it for. The cards worked to change the feel of your rotation. Self Arrow is back babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
The cards are now complete auto-pilot. Astrodyne may as well be a 90s cooldown with random effects. What they should have done was remove seals and make the cards give Royal Road buffs to the Minor Arcana, then you'd have to fish for different cards depending on the situation.
Self arrow, self ewer, bole buff sorta, old lord and lady is back. Though the 10 min and still no lord thing...I swear that was a Stormblood thing too. I feel like it's 51% lady 49% lord lol
I actually dislike how everyone pretended it was Balance or nothing. Sure, that may have been the case for high end raiding, meanwhile, I made every blm happy with Spear, bard with Arrow, and war and sams go bananas with their aoes using Spire
Kinda seems like astrodyne is kinda meh to me. Almost irrelevant at this point. Divination is an auto button now with no conditions behind it and astrodyne only applies to the AST. Don't know if I even care to sift through cards to get seals just to give myself a buff.
@@HeroUnit210 Getting two different seals (which is all but guaranteed) gives you haste, which is a huge boost to your personal DPS and healing ability.
Fishing for three seals isn't worth it, but Astrodyne is still very nice.
All of the classes I've seen so far have huge, new, flashy animations. But it's really cool to see the direction they went with Astrologian! The spell effects are very stylish, delicate, and fit to scale with level 90 Astro!
You have not seen SCH or DRK ye then ;_;
And yeah, I main those two classes.
"Neutral Sect" still bugs the hell out of me as a name. Its just so bland sounding! Why not call it something like "Eclipse Sect" to imply both Diurnal and Nocturnal?!
Just naming it Eclipse sounds better tbh
"you can undraw still"
lol
Why would you ever undraw when you know you're just going to re-pull the same seal?
@@huntermccaskill3938 Everytime I see the healer changes I slowly realise just how little the dev team plays the healers. Undraw still being in the game is total nonsense. Like. It does nothing.
@@arcadema To be fair...
Yoshi's main *STILL* has Bliz1
@@arcadema Sometimes I wonder if they just leave it in there for meme purpose...
Hey that actually looks pretty solid. I like the new changes a bunch, especially Astrodyne.
I freakin love how many delayed healing mechanics we have now (in a month), it really fits the "read the future in the stars/prescient planning" thing! Earthly Star was already our coolest ability imo, and we're getting a variant of it that looks even cooler?? Sign me the hell up!
@Colin Deal yeah there's a single target damage reduction that heals for 500 at the end of its duration (8sec), Exaltation.
It’s a double edge sword because I love I can be lazy with delayed heals but then memorizing each move and timing. I resort to whm style healing whilst my delays are up for a waste in overhealing. 😔
@@CupidCrux well the thing with the delay is you can actually trigger it early but usually for a lesser amount. To get the full effect you mostly have to wait for the end duration. At least for earthly star. I do feel the delay heal is more of what makes ast unique now and not so much the cards.
They brought my Lord and Lady back! YES!
Card Games on the Moon People!
Dude the healing potential on Macrocosmos is insane. With heavy raid wides like Terminal Relativity from E12s that shit is gonna be a party wide benediction. Obviously if the party is shielded they wont take as much dmg, which means the Microcosmos activation is gonna heal for less. I can definitely see speedruns utilising less shielding/dr to allow Macrocosmos to do party benediction lol.
The skill says it stores damage taken, not health lost. Which means it is not bad with a shielded target
You also need to survive. In order to get an aoe bene, you'd need to take enough damage to die twice first, heal enough to not die from that, and still need the bene? Where do you need that much healing within 12 seconds :o
I mean it sounds really good, just not in that scenario.
@@Elidan1012 JWaves. Each pulse can do up to half of everyone's HP every 2 seconds once Brute gets up to 5 stacks. Or the JKick right before that, which kills without shields or party mit. So if you set it up there, AST could solo heal the first 4 JWaves with just oGCD's.
Granted, I don't think AST will have all these tools at level 80 to use in TEA. But the idea is there.
@@xivCatumin I don't see it, granted, I don't know the fight.
The first wave takes 50% hp, stores 25% hp to heal. The next wave will wipe, so you need to heal a bit.
Second wave takes 50%, 50% is now stored. If you healed anything less than 50% after the first wave, then you could trigger the skill here and to mitigate 1 wave I guess by healing everyone by 50%.
If not, you now you a truck load of healing to not die by next wave from somewhere else, which was my point before as well.
@@Elidan1012 My proposal would have Macrokosmos only cover one wave, where you would use something like Cure 3 + Indom or Succor or Helios etc. Instead you could just have Macrokosmos pop and not need to heal a wave. Which doesn't sound like much but is actually huge.
Currently with WHM/SCH (I've actually not run TEA with an AST), you need:
Two Mega Holy's that kill without Addle + Reprisal + shields or some other mit
Preshield Crit Spreadlo
Jkick
Cure 3 + Succor
Wave 1
Medica + Succor
Wave 2
Medica + Succor
Wave 3
Medica + Swift Succor + Indom
Wave 4
Cure 3 + Succor + hard clip Soil
Wave 5
etc
In that scenario, depending on how long Macrokosmos builds it's heal, you could use it to save MP to heal Jkick by having it build during Mega Holy. Or have it build across several waves and not have to heal one. I'm not proposing to use it as a party bene, but it is still huge and could save you and your cohealer a ton of MP.
Missed opportunity to rename "Aspected Benefic/Helios" into "Diurnal Benefic/Helios" but I guess it's because Neutral Sect still exist but oh well I'm still happy with these new AST changes
My sister said she wanted some of the old skills back but I didn't know what they were. I'm really curious how AST will flow now with all these cool changes * - * I'm so glad they changed Lord/Lady I found myself barely using them due to the seals. Very nice very nice * - *
I use the Lord/Lady in dungeons, when I already got all the seals I wanted for the next boss or when I had both moon seals already and didn't get a sun despite redrawing thrice... thx rng xD
They're also used when u already have all the seals and divination is on cooldown during a fight
@@puckyou0012 right, that as well. Kind of falls into the same category as saving up before the boss for me since I don't really raid yet.
You use lord / lady arcana when you have all of the skills *or* you have enough time for another card pull to go for a seal you needed but needed to throw a card away.
Honestly I find this a step down from the old lord /lady.
You do realize Lord/Crown STACK with the seals right?
It’s safe to say I’m gonna still be an AST main. This looks so amazing!
True same !! I'm literally shocked at how cool macrocosmos looks !
Not Astrodyne giving us the effects of the old Astro cards 😭💕💕💕
Gosh. Gravity II having six Gravities orbit enemies is ridiculously cool. And everything looks so beautiful - this expansion has made me fall in love with AST again as HW did before it.
I always preferred the old Malefic animation where it looks like a star falling into the enemy. The current Malefic animation looks too abstract for me. Are we summoning stars out of the enemy? Are we summoning stars to emit heat energy? I dont know how we are doing damage. But Fall Malefic looks like two shooting stars are pulled into a gravitational well, crashing into each other and its beautiful.
@@invaderzam it’s like a dark version of PLD holy circle lol
And to think I loved AST before when I got into Heavensward some months ago... these changes look amazing and something I'm very much looking forward too.
Astrologian causing random people to awaken the Echo with a that meteor shower spell. xD
Astrodyne gives one, two, or all three buffs based on seals, not just one. They are granted in order and the third is dmg and heal potency up.
Just clarifying.
So with all 3 seals I can have all 3 buffs?
@@General_Destinyz yep!
he said that it gives all buffs when you have 3 different seals so yeah ^^ same thing is written on the skill details
@@roanen5285 noiiice
Astrodyne reminds me a bit more of Stormblood AST cards, so that's neat. But the overwhelming sense of grief I feel knowing Noct stance is gone just...
This kills the man. ;-;
Also... Not a fan of the wrap and extremely wide bellbottoms combo, yikes. The weapon looks interesting, though.
Having Lord and Lady on their own draw... kind reminds me of Spread, only without the Royal Road option... I don't hate it, but it was always nice to burn a card with an unwanted seal by playing Lord or Lady, or to use that when you have a full set of seals but Divination was on CD.
At the very least, looks like Astrologian remains the prettiest of the jobs to play, and we love to see it~ Macrocosm looks dope as hell.
I wonder, did they make Earthly Star easier to see? That's the only QoL desire I have, because it's very easy for party members to not see the circle against light backgrounds, and we hate that. Well, that and a gap closer, but I guess AST ain't cool enough for that QoL change. :|
Anyway.... I hope it is fun to play. I powered through the god awful changes to the cards in Stormblood, I can power through the loss of the very best stance, I am sure....
Astrologian's new Astrodyne ability is going to keep me playing AST
15s MP restoration, 10% reduction in cast time, 5% damage increase and healing potency and you can double that with Lucid Dreaming and you'll never suffer from MP issues.
Love everything except the Crowns having its own "Play" skill.. like, why?
I really dig it. AST always winning with the particle effects lol.
I'm shitting and crying rn we did it kids
I'm actually a little sad. As an "only occasionally dabbling in AST" player, I haven't committed the cards to memory yet and was using the Lord/Lady procs to basically tell me whether a card is Melee or Ranged. Now that Lord/Lady are a different ability altogether, I no longer have that visual shorthand.
@Bruno Thanks! I didn't notice that.
@bruno wrong. Ewer is blue and is ranged. Bole is green. Spear is blue also. None of what you say applies. Theres only a few cards. Memorize the name instead to decide who gets the buff.
Astrologian easily has some of the most beautiful animations and effects. I was drawn to it because I love stars and it remains my favorite healer. (Plus making the Sharlayans mad in the quests was fun lmao)
That astrometer, though! I’m in love!
As someone who plays yugioh, the word Macrocosmos hits different
Holy shit. It's actually a little tiny bit like the old AST.
When you consume more than one seal of the same kind, do they stack?
Buffs for buffs, why not
No, the tooltip is worded in a way that it'll only apply 1 ability per unique seal for 15 seconds so you still gonna want to have all different seals.
@@TomBaito Oh. Boo. That's a lot less like the old AST than I was hoping. Still, good to know.
@Colin Deal Oh. So it's actually that cards matter *even less* than before. Fuck. Old Astrologian is truly dead and buried. I'm a Sage main now.
@Colin Deal sleeve draw being gone is what really screws it. 5% more damage for 15 seconds is hardly enough for something that you'll realistically only get once every other stack of 3 seals. Idk why SE is afraid to just buff that up to at least 10%. 3 seals is going to be at least 90 seconds and new AST is going to be screwed by RNG harder than ever since there's only 2 redraws to unscrew your seals. Seems like just such a small pay off for an ability that is already hamstrung by more RNG dependence than ever.
I guess that footage from Astrodyne just wasn't...
...in the cards.
Ooooh love that Star-GLOBE. XD
Whenever I try to activate Macro Cosmos, my opponent just chains Mystical Space Typhoon :/
Just use Pot of Greed
Who's using MST in this day and age?
Of the three existing healer jobs, I like the changes for this one the most; there’s more wanted DPS variety added, the card mechanics are improved to me, and the new abilities look really interesting too. I’ll probably be playing this and Sage the most when it comes to healer jobs in Endwalker.
@mellowmink Ast got nerfed hard. Lol. What are you even talking about. Cards dont give mana anymore. They took nocturnal/diurnal away. Cards are straight %dmg. Dog shyt. Ast is now brain dead whm with cards. They took whats unique to Ast and destroyed the card system.
Crazy so everyone was on doomer mode about AST and turns out theyre actually even better now huh
Nah apparently it's still on doomer mode according to one of the comments
I liked how old divination worked so these changes don't excite me.
@@zynix3698 lol I hated divination. Having it be an ogcd and not tied to the cards is exciting
If you expect the worst you end up pleasantly surprised
There's a certain type of player that hates everything about a game, but then still plays it all day every day and does nothing but complain.
looks cool :3 well may have to re learn AST with all new changes XD
Any old school yugioh players shudder abit when you heard Marcocosmos? x-x
Oh no, I've been using the Lord/Queen icon to tell if the card is for melee or ranged
... why have I never thought of this?
I do the same, so helpful. It works the same tho, it hasn't been removed. You can see the icon. Edit: lol nvm, we're fucked
Blue card borders are melee, purple card borders are ranged. New AST here and learning that made things sooo much easier.
I started playing after Shadowbringers and I was bummed that I never got to try out the more complex card system. Not gonna lie I was VERY nervous for Astro but I am *extremely* okay with this. Very excited to level it up
I mean to be honest it's never gonna go back to how it was in Stormblood, because it doesn't fit the devs' vision of healing anymore (and if I remember correctly it made ast impossible to balance due to the randomness).
But for what it's worth I and many others did really enjoy the insane lottery mini game that we had, with all the cards doing different stuff, and praying for balance to drop. It was really exciting (and distracting), and I let more than one teammate die because I was trying to galaxy brain my cards as best I could xD Still, it makes total sense that they changed it, and even though I still miss these janky ass cards(have you seen stormbloos ast opener like wtf), now that it's super streamlined it's still fun!
I think astrodyne will be pretty brainded though, there's like a 60% chance to get 3 seals for it and we'll just press it regardless for the gcd increase and mana, 5%dmg isnt crazy.
@@shaetane SB AST was the perfect balance of excellent support and solid healing if you were A: good and B: lucky. Terrible RNG but good gameplay still let AST feel good and indulge in my gambling addiction but wagering my parties lives instead of money. New AST has more fun mechs for the healing, but the whole novelty of them as a support healer is almost completely gone and they've been turned into star white mage. They look cool and I'm sure they'll be fun to HEAL with, but nothing will compare to those frantic SB 70 second expanded balance openers or enhanced boles for tank busters or expanded spears with battle lit. We went from the batman of healers to being white mage's Robin in 1 expac.
@@matrinezkevin11492 Yeah it felt really good which is why people miss it, but I imagine it really wasn't sustainable when the devs are trying to make all jobs as perfectly balanced as possible. I agree the franticness and adrenalin from juggling the SB cards is definitely gone, however I find you a bit harsh saying we are "white mage's robins" now aha.
We have, and are getting more of, multiple very powerful ablities to "forecast" healing, on top of notably the already awesome earthly star. We don't have the raw GCD output of WHM but our oGCD tools are insane, and feel so good to pull off properly because of the planning around it! I'm super excited for the new Starfall thing that's totally going that direction.
Now I still think healers are the role the XIV devs are struggling the most with, especially comparing to the amazing diversity of healing possibilities in WoW (from holy paladin to mistweaver to discipline etc. etc), but I'm still enjoying it and I hope they figure it out someday aha!
@shaetane yea but the point you made just proves his point. Ast is now brain dead easy as whm. Gone are nocturnal and diurnal sect. Theres no more flexibility of Ast in 8 mans. Ast cant switch roles as shielder vs regen healer. Gone are the complexity of buffs. They nuked the whole card system. Alot of Ast have quit becos of this asinine change alone. Its equivalent of how they nuked the bard ballads in stormblood. Bard went from awesome to dog shyt overnight. Thanks square enix! (Sarcasm). Ast lost a unique identity.
I can't wait to play this. Thxs Larry :)
Expecting some changes and tweaks but hey the skills look awesomeeee
I still want my Nocturnal (Shield) Sect. From what I can see, they only removed it because it wasn't potent enough. I could make either stance SING all through-out the last half of Shadowbringers and I loved being able to adjust to either role based on my partner. The rest, I will take though! (Yes, I am salty about the removal of Noct. Sect.)
I'm right there with ya. I picked AST specifically because I could use the sects situationally.
I'm salty about removing Nocturnal Sect too. That was my absolute favorite, and my preferred way to play AST. I still swapped to Diurnal to accommodate a scholar co-healer, but if I was on my own, I used Nocturnal exclusively, and always performed well with it. Beyond that, the new changes do sound fantastic, and I'm still excited to continue playing it.
@@Road_to_Dawn Nocturnal was really nice for babysitting sprouts who don't know mechanics. It'd give me a full 20% on top of their HP bar that I could play with. Also, pre-pull shield on the tank made it so that I wouldn't pull aggro like a regen would. I'm hoping that I can still make some use of what shields we have left in our kit to cover what I currently use them for.
The fact they got a yugioh card name for a skill
exaltation seems like a better horiscope o: also THANK GOD the seals won't be a problem for divination. because it was totally the seals
I...I have hope... I was so worried they were gonna gut astro again and even tho I am hella unhappy with the removal of our shielding the fact we get our cards back has peaked my interest.
HYPE
As an AST main, I am SUPER excited for this update. It looks amazing. Macrocosmos is gonna be baller!
I dont understand or even play theses types of games. But your showcases are so good I cant stop watching them.
I'm pretty new to AST (and the game in general), but I'm kinda hoping they still pull out (ha) some card changes. I was super excited to unlock astrologian, but was kinda disappointed when I found out basically all the cards did the same thing. Imo the cards were what really drew me in, and the lore played it up as well, saying that you're carving the future when you draw the card. But it just applies basically the same buff no matter what card it is. Kinda a let down tbh.
I'm sure it gets better with levels, but the fact the cards feel so samey is sad to me.
Yeah, each card used to have a different effect, like Arrow increasing skill speed IIRC, and Bole being damage reduction. Balance used to be a damage buff, so many players would draw cards exclusively to try to get Balance. Because of that, the devs changed every card to be a damage buff, since that's what it seemed the majority of players were trying to do anyway. The way the Lord and Lady function with these 6.0 changes is actually pretty much the way they used to behave in the past as well, instead of being the bigger-than-normal-cards damage buffs they were in Shadowbringers.
I’m a happy Astrologian :3
Yup Astro is still gonna be my main. I’m so excited for Endwalker.
As one of the healer mains that’s been salty about all the healers being gutted in Shadowbringers🤬 this put a small smile on my face that they gave us back both the lady and lord skills along with a couple of our old buffs… I will still miss the complexity that cards use to have in Heavensward and Stormblood but the changes here seem interesting. Gonna hold my breath on the thought of me not having to spam the same skill until I need to heal or use a card.
Uh no. Ast lost alot of mana regen skill from card system. The straight dmg buff is now brain dead buff. Ast got nerfed hard. They lost the unique identity and got shyt in return. They gave Ast nothing. They deleted alot of Ast abilities and gave them shyt in return. Diurnal/nocturnal is gone. Ast got nothing in return.
AST: has Macrocosmos
Me: Vietnam-styled flash backs to the Macrocosmos Meta in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Me, who played banish.dek: hehehehehe
@@Inhaledcorn
Me: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Earthly star got its potency increased by a lot, it’s basically Astro’s assize now
Oh also it's the size of some battlefields now
amagad the weapon's goTTA MOON INNIT!
I don't want to play Macrocosmos! Then all my cards will be banished instead of going to the Graveyard. :(
My list of changes needed.
Clarifying redraw- should grant a different seal after lv 70. To make up for lack of sleeve draw.
Minor Arcana- keep it as a way to upgrade cards when maxed on seals. This makes it fit so people can realistically draw both Lady and lords.
Looks like I'm still going to main AST. Was worried, but now I'm super excited. Still want to try Sage, of course, but this looks cool!
You aren't the only one that had serious trouble drawing a lord which makes me wonder if it isn't bogged or there's a condition for it.
After watching tons of your videos ..I just realized today I'm not subscribed O.O ...well wasn't :P Love your content !
Really liking these changes. AST is kind of my favorite, at least until I get my hands on Sage
I just picked up ASTRO last night
Someone make “First I have a disclaimer” as a sound byte
ngl.. i was very not cool with losing noct sect but the additions have restored my joy in maining AST. i look forward to it 🤗
THEY LITERALLY ADDED A YUGIOH CARD AS AN ABILITY (Macro Cosmos) I LOVE IT
Looks like Astrologian will still be one of my favorite healers!!
One of? Like… in the top 4?
I know that people are gonna complain on the lack of rng mitigation on Ast again like they did on SB. Removal of sleeve draw, somewhat restricted draw and redraw and minor arcana rng is gonna mess up Asts a lot in fights.
They need to get over it and learn how cards and tarot work REAL QUICK.
@@CupidCrux AST is usually pathetically dookie weak on their own so they rely entirely on buffing their party to be able to get anywhere near the DPS of other healers. Making it so that you may just get so dicked on seals that you start doing culinarian tier levels of damage is silly. Unless Malefic and combust got FAT potency increases to be much closer to Glare and Dia then we've got another ShB AST launch situation where the job is borderline unplayable while WHM can roll their forehead across their keyboard and do everything you do but better. Sounds like fun
Tbh this looks pretty cool!!!
Love these changes! How cool are these new mitigation abilities and buffs? I'm so excited.
Astro changes feel good tbh.
Still don't understand how AST works, but it won't stop me from playing it still. "WHAT? WOULD YOU RATHER SIT IN QUE OR DEAL WITH ME?!"
I don't know what any of this means, but I look forward to playing when Oceanic servers release
Since not 1 media tour invitee showed off hrothgar gear I guess Im playing ast over whm in endwalker. Hrothgar got the warrior helm where viera didnt so maybe we did get more hats Idk nobody found out on our behalf 🤪
Ok but the real question is: is the background music a new battletheme from endwalker? around 0:42 for example
I actually love the seals change, because it actually encourages you to try getting different seals, instead of just whatevering it for a whooping 1% difference in Divination's buff nobody without a parser would even notice.
Now If only we could buy graphics cards go crank out the good good graphics:/.
I stop playing FF14 a couple of years back, is it worth getting back into now?
Didn't say Astrologian correctly. Bad video. Dislike.
Sounds like it'll be be pure pain with the sigils now that we can't minor "bad sigil" and having a single redraw, but at least everything is really really cool. And pretty, don't downplay how pretty everything is.
Ppl on the balance discord mathed it out and we'll get like a 60% chance 3 seals for each astrodyne, and 90% for 2 seals. Regardless we'll probably not wait to improve our seals and we're just gonna press astrodyne on cd for the MP and gcd speed
@Colin Deal I agree with the both of you and I came to the same conclusion, but I just wanted to point out it sounds kind of uncomfortable how we have even less control now.
I want to make it clear I didn't mean it as a bitching or anything, regardless of the result it's free delicious new buffs and the mana is guaranteed.
sad thinmg about gravity2 is it has lower pot than current gravity.
Amazing changes!!! Very hyped.
Wait, is Astrodyne a self-buff or can you cast it on a party member? The way it was worded I thought it was a self buff but there are some comments saying how its close to the old card system
Self only. If you look at the tooltip, it says 0y. Larryzaur didn't really address it in the video (or the fact that playing cards is also 0y)
It's similar to the old card system in that it's bringing back some of the effects of the original cards: Ewer "(mp regen), Arrow (haste), and Balance (dps increase)
@nekonomicron NOPE. Ast card system is a straight buff. Theuly didnt bring back shyt. They took alot of abilities from Ast and nuke them hell of them. Ast is no longer unique and lost their identity with diurnal/nocturnal sect. Ast got the nerf stick.
did they removed cure ? or it was just not part of the media tour ?
macrocosmos? *dino-rabbit vietnam flashbacks*
PK Starstorm looks really neat!
It's driving me crazy I swear every single video I see, in the middle of Sharlayan in the day, has that same snippet of that divine track... I trying so hard to find the complete song and I can't 😅 Did the FXIV dev team seriously make all the UA-camrs ONLY include that 30 second sample??
Still kinda bothered that the ast gear has looked the same since sb :(
O_O ASTRO GOT AN ACTUAL YUGIOH CARD!!!! Macro Cosmos is a Yugioh card!!! The day has come!! IT'S TIME TO DUEL!!!!
did you misspronounce astroloGian?
But Larry, you didn't answer the most important question! DID THEY FIX COMBUST'S DoT TOOLTIP?!
Larry one comment ... I like how you made every single video simple and easy to understand BUT the Discord alarm in every single one fo them ... seriously. Still Thank You for the work.
I went from sch to AST in 3.0 but kept my smn. Now i don’t feel bad for leaving ast as my main healer tho in EW i will move to SGE
HOLY FUCK YES YES YES YES YES YES AHHHHHHHHH
can i get my yugioh duel disk now?
MY BABY BOUTTA BE EVEN MORE TASTY
Macrocosmos sounds insane. Like with the way it’s worded, it sounds like a group wide Benediction essentially
The particle effect of AST never ceasr to amaze me! Sigh, bye again old friend WHM, you're just plain, no hate.
YOU SAID ASTROLOGIAN CORRECTLY AT THE VERY BEGINNING IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!
Lol if you can draw lord or lady before a pull then get ready for 60 second pulls especially since getting a lord would be key before going into a fight for a good boost of damage if you get 2 lords
looks like I'll be spending the first 20 minutes of the expansion redoing hotbars and reading tooltips again smh
I clicked on an Astrologian video but Larry is showing off footage of Zenyatta for some reason.
Macrocosmos sounds amazing