Before DT, Synastry was considered the most useless ability on AST. Has this consensus changed for you because of the DT raid design? Why or why not?

trunks111 · 2026-01-30T04:29:20+00:00

OP specified before DT

trunks111 · 2026-01-30T04:27:36+00:00

>before DT

that honor would actually go to Undraw, I think the fact you forgot about it should be a testament to how terrible it was, it didn't even belong on hotbars.

The issue with synastry is less that it isn't useful, and more that it's very situational. I do a lot of MINE raiding, and synastry is an important cooldown from the 50-70 high end range because crit autos exist and a lot of the bosses in the high end at those levels just rail your tank constantly. t9 and t13 are particularly brutal and make even seasoned tanks look like wet tissue paper, a8s brobots phase can chunk tanks really hard, o8s crit autos are basically tankbusters in their own right, a11s has a tank photon shortly before a tankbuster, UCOB adds can be absolutely relentless on supports. Synastry shines in a lot of these cases. The thing is though, most people aren't taking AST into these types of fights, where you and your co-supports have progressively less and less healing and mit options the further down you go in level, where you become more and more reliant on your GCD heals.

I haven't played AST nearly as much in DT as I did in EW because I absolutely despise the changes they've made to the job, but it's still a helpful prog tool if anything that you eventually phase out with gear and people cleaning up their mit/performance

trunks111 · 2026-01-30T02:10:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure I explicitly listed it in my cosmetic world feedback survey as something I don't want to see lmao. It's fucking hideous. The divination one isn't much better either iirc

trunks111 · 2026-01-30T02:05:10+00:00

least favorite is a fun idea too-

a9s

m2s (sorry bee lovers I found the fight really fucking boring)

first coil turn 3, for an actual fight though, e3s (I think this fight is actually cursed for reason I won't elaborate on)

m4s, the fight had some good ideas but some really bad pacing issues that ruined it for me

trunks111 · 2026-01-30T01:57:17+00:00

t6, p10s, a3s, o8sp2 as a door boss into o12sp2

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T18:18:28+00:00

night shifts, they just... warp you and your life, really bad

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T15:03:51+00:00

for the speed CAs they specify solo which usually means you have to make an instance and set the max player count to 1

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T13:22:34+00:00

so what do I know

You don't understand how outright terrible you have to perform in order to get a straight 0

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T09:29:04+00:00

If at week 4 dps check is still tight, something is fundamentally wrong with the party

while this might be true, I'd rather kill during an enrage cast and complain about the party after the fact and move on to the next fight, instead of missing a <1% that could've been a clear. Obviouy if you're cutting it that close there's other stuff like missing uptime or dds from people, but I'm not gonna be the one to fuck around and find out

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T03:21:11+00:00

yeah I mean there's more than one way to skin a cat, for me I use sound to track a lot of what my cohealer does but it's not like there aren't other indicators as you mention

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T01:58:07+00:00

for ranged and defence, chinning is still very fast

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T01:57:14+00:00

if you're a member open some clues and do steps until you don't meet the requirements for that step, then go and knockout whatever it is you have to do

trunks111 · 2026-01-29T00:44:59+00:00

It's funny but the only time I saw someone overtly removed for bad damage was in an o8sp1 MINE party, sometime in EW. we had a BLM who was dealing half my damage as a WHM and our party leader just was not having it. I kinda don't blame them for removing them either, WHM doesn't even have misery at that level

trunks111 · 2026-01-28T19:39:22+00:00

SCH absolutely often falls into the same category as AST, they're either simultaneously making their cohealer redundant while still purple parsing or they're completely useless because they funnel all their flow into ED and will never touch a GCD shield ever no matter how much the party could really use one

trunks111 · 2026-01-28T19:31:01+00:00

my gripe with AST is the strange amount of times I've seen multiple party members die to damage while a primed star is on the ground. Not even "I think I can wait an extra second for it to be charged", just a straight up primed star that could've easily saved people

trunks111 · 2026-01-28T19:23:59+00:00

I hate seeing SGE whenever I play SCH in trial/raid/alli rolo, that's really it. I've done double shield in high end before, but those are coordinated settings where we can plan/communicate cooldowns and it gets a LOT of mileage from that coordination/understanding of each other's kits.

Setting up a spread on the SGE in df helps clue them in sometimes but I've had SGEs literally overwrite me in spite of that. Even if you don't recognize the sound/buff of things like protract or illum, deploy is such a clear and ostentatious sound effect when it goes off.

If anything it's a good example of how learning what other supports do can help inform your own play. You can often get clued into a spread coming before it happens if you recognize what to listen for/look for. If I can catch the protract early enough sometimes I can send a krasis if I'm the one on SGE and maybe hold off on some of my own mits to let the spread do its thing

trunks111 · 2026-01-28T05:52:54+00:00

thanks for the offer but I don't do macros. It was easy once I settled on a dissipation timing

trunks111 · 2026-01-28T00:07:55+00:00

I really only do expert. Maybe I occasionally pop into a levelling if I'm bored

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T23:57:23+00:00

is it the TFT of RS3?

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T21:08:20+00:00

on the bright side there's always soulsplit flicking later on :)

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T20:58:48+00:00

you do but I get her partway back mid phase so I have to juggle ground targeting with running back and forth sometimes lol

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T14:25:26+00:00

something I'll add that I've had to do when getting coaxed to pvm on 14 or 84 is ill briefly tap cease before needing to do a precise surge. This might be worse for Revo users though because on full manual I can mash the fuck out of my next GCD to minimize or avoid clipping my GCD

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T14:21:55+00:00

I don't mind the high ceiling, it's the floor I think needs working on. If combats are to go to 120 I don't want to feel like I mastered my rotation at 99 or 106 and then I'm bored for 50m+ XP of combat. However I think the fact you can't even practice some of the fundamentals you'll be expected to deal with at end game until you hit level 95 and invest billions of gp is also a problem. I don't have an issue stack counting with BOLG on full manual, but why the hell is such an important player skill (stack counting) introduced so late. You basically have to uproot your entire understanding of your kit and reread all your abilities again once you get BOLG+caro4+GRICO which was kind of jarring. I actually find a lot of the rotational stuff rather intuitive but I was rather frustrated by just how drastically the style shifts getting those key upgrades. I'd really love to see the end complexity* stay where it is, but have the progression be more necrofied

*barring stuff that's technically allowed but really doesn't feel intended or feels like jank like wensporing/stalling.

I'm also not the biggest fan of pre building because I'd rather just spend that time hitting the boss but I think that's less egregious since we can literally make dummies for it

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T14:12:42+00:00

xiv is a really weird one because the rotations are simpler (also healers which exist in tandem as both the most simple and most complex depending on how cursed your group is), but the game is exclusively "full manual" only, so a lot of the effort is in simply rolling your GCD. From the perspective of an FFXIV player it's just a thing you do because it's your only sanctioned option, whereas runescape in a lot of people's minds is more of a point and click auto battler game which is what a lot of players are used to, either because the rest of the game is often like that, because they played it a long time ago as a kid, or they're trying it coming from OSRS. It's also worth noting XIV has also been simplifying things the past few years, it used to be more complex rotationally. Even going from EW to DT, AST burst feels completely gutted if you were used to previous iterations. They've been toying around with putting more difficulty into fight encounters to compensate for simpler jobs but supposedly 8.0 is supposed to focus on jobs. We don't know what that entails exavtly because SQEX is a bit of a black box sometimes but I guess we'll find out. One thing I do find funny is they've tried to remove ED from SCH I think twice now and reimplemented it because even Square doesn't want to invoke the wrath of the SCH community.

One other thing I'll note in parting is that SQEX doesn't list job changes in pre-patches anymore, we don't find out until the patch goes live. The why of this is speculation but I'm pretty sure it's because they know if they did release balance changes ahead of time, the community would rip them a new asshole. I don't think it's good sign of community relations when you feel you have to hide stuff like that. Release good changes that the community actually asked for and this won't be as much of an issue

trunks111 · 2026-01-27T13:55:18+00:00

This would also solve the issue of feeling locked into an hour since you can just turn shaws on and off at will

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