5.3 won't contain any major, groundbreaking changes to healers, and nobody should expect a more intuitive DPS rotation for SCH, or card changes for AST. There are a few issues that will likely be tuned however, and the two biggest in my opinion are:
Scholars lower DPS in comparison to AST and WHM
Astrologian's MP economy in comparison to WHM and SCH
The most obvious and straightforward adjustment for Scholar right now is raising the potency of Broil. I can't imagine Square will take a deeper look into Scholar's DPS right now.
As for Astrologian, the devs will likely take drastic measures (like they have in the past) to make AST more desirable. This may not come all at once in 5.3, but AST has about 50% of the total number of players SCH and WHM have, regardless of it being top dog.
I personally think the easiest fix right now to a majority of ASTs issues is reducing the cooldown timer of Lightspeed from 90 to 60 seconds. It would give the job more breathing room for the insane amount of OGCDs, as well as further alleviate the issue of MP.
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Scholars lower DPS in comparison to AST and WHM
Astrologian's MP economy in comparison to WHM and SCH
The most obvious and straightforward adjustment for Scholar right now is raising the potency of Broil. I can't imagine Square will take a deeper look into Scholar's DPS right now.
As for Astrologian, the devs will likely take drastic measures (like they have in the past) to make AST more desirable. This may not come all at once in 5.3, but AST has about 50% of the total number of players SCH and WHM have, regardless of it being top dog.
I personally think the easiest fix right now to a majority of ASTs issues is reducing the cooldown timer of Lightspeed from 90 to 60 seconds. It would give the job more breathing room for the insane amount of OGCDs, as well as further alleviate the issue of MP.
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