FFXIV: Dawntrail Astrologian 1 to 100 Leveling Skills Guide

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New? Got too many skills? Made the mistake of using a level skip and have no idea what anything does? Just hate reading? Try this guide out!

This guide seeks to teach new Astrologians how to Astrologian properly, without getting too deep into optimization. I’ll be showing off and explaining some openers but not delving too much deeper beyond that and general skill usage. Endgame is a long way away and there’s lots to learn along the way. Start slow and work your way up one skill at a time! Then, graduate to more advanced guides.

General Healing Guide: https://youtu.be/hTfv8psolXA
Healer Role Actions Guide: https://youtu.be/RS1A15EzUn0
Guide to my HUD: https://youtu.be/GgXOHas9GyY
Dictionary of Terms: https://youtu.be/Oi8-myAY-Uc

Opener images: https://imgur.com/a/VhWLQGD

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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Playstyle Summary: 1:54
Role Actions: 2:57
L20. Maim and Mend: 3:15
L1, 4. Malefic and Combust: 3:29
L2, 26. Benefic and Benefic II: 4:40
L10. Helios: 6:02
L12. Ascend: 6:44
L6. Lightspeed: 7:57
L15. Essential Dignity: 9:13
L30. Astral Draw, Umbral Draw, and Play I to III: 10:45
L30. Undraw: 15:22
L34. Aspected Benefic: 16:04
L36. Enhanced Benefic: 17:37
L40. Maim and Mend II: 18:12
L40. Aspected Helios: 18:22
Role Action Gained: 19:41
L45. Gravity: 19:46
L46. Combust Mastery and Combust II: 20:27
Role Action Gained: 21:03
L50. Divination: 21:07
L50. Synastry: 22:02
L50. Opener: 23:33
L50. AoE “Opener”: 26:21
L54. Malefic Mastery and Malefic II: 26:46
L58. Collective Unconscious: 26:55
L60. Celestial Opposition: 28:41
L62. Earthly Star: 29:53
L64. Malefic Mastery II and Malefic III: 32:16
L68. Hyper Lightspeed: 32:27
L70. Minor Arcana Mastery and Minor Arcana: 33:00
L70. Opener: 34:26
L72. Combust Mastery II, Malefic Mastery III, Combust III, and Malefic IV: 35:31
L74. Celestial Intersection: 35:53
L76. Horoscope: 36:59
L78. Enhanced Essential Dignity: 38:48
L80. Neutral Sect: 39:06
L82. Malefic Mastery IV and Fall Malefic: 40:54
L82. Gravity Mastery and Gravity II: 41:12
L85. Enhanced Healing Magic: 41:33
L86. Exaltation: 42:20
L88. Enhanced Celestial Intersection: 43:19
L90. Macrocosmos: 44:00
L92. Enhanced Divination and Oracle: 46:45
L94. Magick Mastery: 47:27
L96. Aspected Helios Mastery and Helios Conjunction: 47:54
L98. Enhanced Essential Dignity II: 48:20
L100. Enhanced Neutral Sect and Sun Sign: 48:52
L100. Opener: 50:09
L100. AoE “Opener”: 53:07
Outro: 53:43

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36 thoughts on “FFXIV: Dawntrail Astrologian 1 to 100 Leveling Skills Guide”

  4. My go-to healer as a SCH main when I feel like playing something other than SCH.

    With an extremely predictable rotation now, I really like the new AST, plus I only need to manage 2 dps buff cards every 2 min, both easily being slotted in my 2 min burst. Guaranteed Lord of Crowns every burst window, too.

    Lady of Crowns is also extremely easy to plan for, and in early levels (ARR especially), the healing cards are busted and help make it better than whm in every single way unless you somehow NEED Benediction for a niche npc heal.

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  11. I'm so glad I finally got AST to 100 so I don't have to touch it again for another 3 years. I wouldn't mind it if the potency on its damage spells weren't all below the other healers. It feels anemic while leveling and as far as healing, they feel like they take the long road to the same destination of the other healers.

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  12. 13:28 – Regarding the Card "The Spear" (Increases Ranged Dmg by 6%, Melee Dmg by 3%):
    You said the rules are similar to "The Balance" but in reverse. I somewhat disagree. While for the Balance, if you have a good Tank, but only ranged DPS it can be a good idea the reverse is in my experience not true for The Spear.
    Even if you have only melees, you should rarely give the Spear to yourself (the only ranged in that context). Your DPS-Players would have to be really bad to not outdamage you by a factor of 2.
    It happens. But it's very rare.

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  15. Lol this video comes out 2 weeks after I level Astro to 100. Despite that I've been healing for 10 years (WHM/SCH) and feel like I know Astro (I've looked up Balance guidance) I still am/will watching this guide lol. Thanks a lot for all of your hard work!

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  22. I still hope that somewhere along the way during DT they remove the job type restrictions from the damage cards. I could stomach them in EW as you got so many cards, but now that our buffing is a shell of what it was, it kinda stinks especially at lower levels. Oracle helps bridge the gap by 100, but I posit every time that rebuttal happens that there's more to the game than max level…

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