It’s hard to get a good read on these ones outside of actual gameplay, so I wrapped these all into one.
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ANGEL INSTALL!
how do so many people who play this game for a living not know anything about half the jobs?
I said all I wanted for WHM was a dash and I got what I wanted.
Now for speculation! I doubt it's locked behind Temperance even though that'd be thematic. Looks like they dashed to the edge of the enemy's hitbox, but I'm hoping you can target allies as well (so you can have a WHM and SGE in your static and be everyone can be traumatized by the Bullet Bill healers).
The fact that people are complaining about a "forced enshroud" with Seraphism is insane to me. If you play normal content you dont have to press the button. If you play content harder than normal content you've got bigger things to worry about than your character's glam.
People mentioned AST losing the time magic, and I sympathize. But an easy way to bring it back is by upgrading the heal spells to look like time reversal! So now instead of standard healing, it’s flavored as us reversing the damage taken! And I think an ability that boosts the dot we apply and making it look like time speeding up could be fun!
Astro was the job that brought me into the game and quite literally everything that I loved about the job has been removed. No more seal Managment (which was never hard to begin with) no more unique effects with the cards. No more being the flexible healer. I know some people will love this direction for AST but I am not one of them. I’ll still play the job but it’s not going to be my go to healer anymore sadly.
What I think Astro is going to be now is at the start of a fight, you will get Balance, Arrow, Spire (probably a damage buff, a defense buff, and a heal) and Lord of Crowns which might continue to be an AoE attack. Then 60 seconds later during the downtime, you'll get Spear (dps), Bole (defense), and Ewer (heal) along with the Lady of Crowns for AoE healing. I'm going to have to see it in action before I jump on that "AST is dead, its identity is gone" bandwagon
EDIT: Alright I'm going to put my new idea here just so I can point to it if I end up being right. I think Diurnal and Nocturnal sect will come back as buffs. You'll start with Diurnal, then when you draw, you'll get Balance, Arrow, Spire, and Lord and then the buff will switch to Nocturnal. Drawing under Nocturnal will give you Spear, Bole, Ewer, and Lady and switch the buff back to Diurnal. Remember, we can't see buff or debuff icons in the job action trailer, and that won't be something they'll put in the Live Letter powerpoint.
If we evolve the idea further, maybe Diurnal and Nocturnal would actually affect the job somewhat, like maybe switching from Diurnal to Nocturnal gives you the Astrodyne damage up effect, while switching from Nocturnal to Diurnal gives you the increased healing from Astrodyne. I don't think that'll be enough to appease the people who are upset, but I would be satisfied.
I do think people were overreacting to the the SCH part of the Endwalker trailer, but I do agree that Expedient (before finding out how strong its value's were) was not as impressive as something like Macrocosmos in terms of visual and audio effects. One of those "feedback" issues like with the Gunbreaker SFX complaints.
Compare that to a full on transformation like Seraphism here in Dawntrail, this one is definitely more eye catching. I am definitely excited to see healers getting more damage buttons. If we can get some of that mentality applied to the earlier levels too, I think many players would be a lot more engaged. Prospectively, Dawntrail is looking pretty good on that front.
1:34 Drak is like an entire expansion behind in knowledge 😀
AST doesn't change other player's action speed 🙂
I like how drak either didnt notice or completely ignored the second debuff/ dot
Gonna say it: If you still have your fairy as SCH and its abilities then congrats you still have the job..
AST has cards once every 60 seconds… No randomness too just the mundane timer rotational junk like everyone else. I truly miss Stormblood AST without question.
Kinda conflicted on what I want to main for Dawntrail. Started out as a White Mage main all the way through Shadowbringers, but changed to lasers and the gap closer. Now White Mage is getting movement shenanigans, and the artefact gear is looking like the OG lvl 50 set (my fave of WHM). Gonna be a hard choice to make…
Did I hear they actually bring back the old card style again
if this is true then AST is not just this dmg card for you and this dmg card for you
also finally SCH got the most spotlight on Healer because of that Angelic mode
Healer? More like green DPS, the only healer in this game is warrior 🥳 Astro new cards go 🎉
Now that seals are no longer a thing for AST cards, I'm curious as to the significance between each of the 6 suits ("Gates" as the AST job quest calls them).
Kinda living for the complete confusion in this vid but also hoping people don’t take it as fact
AST was fun when I had Nocturnal.
Excited for Astro! EW Ast was annoying as heck for me haha. All the healers look rad this time around imo <3
Regarding SCH, I see people talking about losing the "battle tactician" angle but I've always seen divine/angelic themes as going hand-in-hand with battle themes. Some of the most prominent battles in fiction are holy wars, angels vs. demons etc. Divine generals are a trope at this point. Diablo being the most obvious example.
14:10 my brother in christ, you were the one complaining about the aesthetic of Viper's gauge.
I feel like I have to call you out. Why are you trying to make it seem like people were mad about SCH's strength/viability based on the trailer when really the actual complaints were mostly about how bad SCH looked and felt to play. It is extremely unauthentic to step over hundreds of legit arguments about SCH to point and laugh at ONE very obviously silly argument. I dropped SCH at the end of ShB but I still really really HATE when people do this. You are effectively underplaying other people's complaints about the job even though you are here using your platform to complain about the jobs you play and hope to get them changed based on your own experience while trying to silence other people who want to to the same with their jobs. I respect you as a content creator and I really wish you could just try to be more genuine as a person. It's not just you who does this but you should know that it is really uncalled for.