While farming the 7.0 EX trials, I tried to take note of the various playstyles and healing plans of the healers that I was partnered with; I always noticed a really good SGE or SCH and I really felt it when they weren't there. This is not to say that being paired with WHM didn't go well (no PFs allowed for double AST), just that I had to use notably fewer CDs to handle the same mechanics when I had a shield cohealer.
Watching SCH invalidate several mechanics and raid-wides with their crit shields looks so cool (tbh I'd probably play more SCH if I didn't specifically dislike the fairy/angel aesthetics). A lot of the times, I felt like I barely needed to heal because the SCH/SGE shields were so strong (EX2, basically any raid-wide + conga) or there was one particular part where I had a niche that could be fulfilled (EX1 lightning phase). Ngl, I kinda got the impression that they should be able to solo heal with some minor planning? There's already healer-less clears of EX1 and EX2 so maybe it's a lot more viable than I know.
Nocturnal AST has never had anything crazy like crit adlo + deployment tactics (as far as I can remember?) but I guess I'm feeling nostalgic and I miss the versatility of being able to go shield or regen for each encounter, even within the same instance (eg, dungeon bosses/mob pulls). I also just think Nocturnal sect's activation animation was one of the coolest AST animations in general.
I don't have much to say about Diurnal sect though. I did think it was cool that each sect had different buff attached: IIRC, initially Diurnal had a haste buff and Nocturnal had increased healing potency.
All that said, I'm extremely grateful that we were allowed to keep Neutral Sect after the rework. Maybe if they lean more into job identity in future expansions like they said they wanted to, Diurnal and Nocturnal sects can come back as a type of cooldown (probably with different effects, but I still want the fantasy of different types of sects back). I'm too casual of a player to offer proper analysis about what AST needs or novel additions to their kit, sadly.
TL;DR - I'm feeling nostalgic and enjoying 7.0 AST a lot, but having sects also felt really great imo
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Watching SCH invalidate several mechanics and raid-wides with their crit shields looks so cool (tbh I'd probably play more SCH if I didn't specifically dislike the fairy/angel aesthetics). A lot of the times, I felt like I barely needed to heal because the SCH/SGE shields were so strong (EX2, basically any raid-wide + conga) or there was one particular part where I had a niche that could be fulfilled (EX1 lightning phase). Ngl, I kinda got the impression that they should be able to solo heal with some minor planning? There's already healer-less clears of EX1 and EX2 so maybe it's a lot more viable than I know.
Nocturnal AST has never had anything crazy like crit adlo + deployment tactics (as far as I can remember?) but I guess I'm feeling nostalgic and I miss the versatility of being able to go shield or regen for each encounter, even within the same instance (eg, dungeon bosses/mob pulls). I also just think Nocturnal sect's activation animation was one of the coolest AST animations in general.
I don't have much to say about Diurnal sect though. I did think it was cool that each sect had different buff attached: IIRC, initially Diurnal had a haste buff and Nocturnal had increased healing potency.
All that said, I'm extremely grateful that we were allowed to keep Neutral Sect after the rework. Maybe if they lean more into job identity in future expansions like they said they wanted to, Diurnal and Nocturnal sects can come back as a type of cooldown (probably with different effects, but I still want the fantasy of different types of sects back). I'm too casual of a player to offer proper analysis about what AST needs or novel additions to their kit, sadly.
TL;DR - I'm feeling nostalgic and enjoying 7.0 AST a lot, but having sects also felt really great imo
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