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As a Greek myself , I love every and each name of these abilities , especially Soterios 😊

Philosophia feels kinda like SGE's Dissipation to me (not in terms of use case, but how it fits into the kit).

I don't disagree with any point that you've made regarding Philosophia, but personally I love it. Found two places in EX1 that it really shined for me.

Hey Momo, out of pure curiosity were you Jin Dono that use to play on Brynhildr?

I was looking at Philosophia trying to decide where it'd be most useful and it occurred to me. If I had it during HH on P10S that mechanic would have been far easier to get through. I think it's probably been designed with that specific kind of mechanic in mind tbh. The 3rd trial also appeared to have something that'll probably be HH in EX3 so I'm looking forward to it.

That moment you realize that cards are now pretty much just aetherflow with less options

i am so waiting for the whm video

its a shame that Philosophia doesn't give shields instead of healing

As a Sage player I just want Pepsi to work on Hamia/Panhaima and give a bonus heal based on stacks remaining or something.

I was looking forward to this and fully agree. I saw Philosophia and said "wait.. what? why?" I kind of genuinely hate it? It's thematic, funny because "WOW AOE KARDIA!!!", but like.. you can do anything you would want from this skill normally in SGE's kit? It's another big regen. Pneuma has burst healing covered and we have a million ways to slow burn HP bars back up. Hoping content shows up that really makes this button worth caring about more.

Haven't done the extremes yet but I really have not had fun with astro at 100 so far, I'll have to see how it behaves in harder content.

What do you think of WHM? So far it’s the worst healer in terms of DPS contribution, pure healing and mitigation healing as has the weakest tool for any situation the game can throw at you. I’m really curious what your take is on them.

Awesome video, thanks!

Philosophia seems like something thats better used to augment a sage's healing toolkit rather than a tool to rely on for healing

I'd like them to add another way to generate addersting stacks that doesn't work off gcd heals. They feel really inconsistent, gcd heals are a last resort for me and it feels like being punished.

I like to think of Philosophia as an equivalent to WHM's planery Indulgence that you can also utilize with gcd dmg skills, I just wish that you could use soteria on it. It's very effective in fights with heal checks like e12s terminal relativity or p8s (final mech, forgot the name)

Playin a dangerous game with that thumbnail, partner

Im torn apart, because Im not sure to continue my path as Scholar or Sage, since Im finding Scholar really difficult to master :(

I thought I would enjoy new ast as someone who played it a lot in EW but i really dont vibe with some of the rigidness and a point of personal bitching i really hate 3 buttons for the cards. so the job isnt for me anymore which is ok i have bard and scholar to play instead. but if i could change ast id do this Spear = Melee Arrow = Ranged Spire = Mini nuke Balance = Dot Ewer = Shield Bole = 5% mit on target(aoe) whilst bringing back the old 1 card at a time. to reduce the issue of people fishing fir the dps boost cards id put some limitation on redraw if not remove it

To me, to make Philosophia better, it would be reducing the procs it gets, maybe upping the potency a bit, and also making the next X damaging spells instant. Yeah if you prepare this would be not really needed, but, it would still be cool and encourage people to dps...

they should have gave physis a small potency buff aswell to go with the 5 second healing buff trait, atleast it would have felt somewhat impactful then..

Excellent Sage video my liege.

I have cleared the 2 ex trials with scholar. Some skill and spells are useless. Seraphic veil, energy drain, fey illumination...

I’ve fallen in love with healing this expansion so far. ❤

Ngl I was one of the AST doomer before the expac arrived, based on media tour info. AST is my main and I prog everything on them. I agree that the new 4 cards are kinda meh and useless depending on situations, but can be powerful to save someone who messed up. It makes the job even busier which I like. Few people liked Astrodyne, I personally found it fun and I do mourn my MP and fast cast with the new AST x) The lack of mobility + the proactive healing playstyle makes AST very skillfull to play, as you gotta know well the fight to fully master the insane potency. All the mitigation makes him very valuable as you say. Just to note, mitigation isn't additive but multiplicative, so you can't stack 20% AOE / 40% ST mitig, but 19% AOE and 35% ST. Which is still insane tbh.

A nice change to philosophia I’d like to see is part of the overhealing it does is converted into a shield

Yeah Philosophia is restrictive.. oh wait we wiped once today cause Seraphism doesn‘t work after Dissipation, and without you still cannot move and heal to the extend required with the current lackluster kit and potencies. Your fairy potencies are almost non-existent, Indom is better, but doest even heal one hit back up, nevermind 3 back to back. In that sense Philosophia is actually not restrictive at all, you can just use it whenever and it will be able to do it’s job, without any arbitrary conditions that make a old system feel even worse. I agree that it sound rather lackluster in comparison, but Sage is already hands down overturned and overpowered as it is, while staying rather simple to use and being extremely fast and responsive. So this extra, comparatively strong, HoT, is just another bonus imo

Rhizo giving an addersting and Icarus having 2 stacks would be a small but massive change. I'd love that. Oh but also pls let the DoT's stack 👉🏻👈🏻

Hey Momo! I've been enjoying the Dawntrail content, but I must say I don't quite get why you consider Seraphism to be so much stronger than Philosophia. Visually and creatively it is of course the much more interesting ability, no arguments there, but powerwise I feel like they are extremely similar. Sorry if this comment comes across as ranty or hostile, but I feel like you're making a bit of an unfair comparison regarding their use cases. I feel like you are putting too much emphasis on Philosophia as a better Kardia, and overlooking how it competes with Seraphism's output if both are forced to gcd heal (which is the only situation you'd use Seraphism) To begin with, their main effects are essentially the same two things: 1. Increase your gcd healing by 20% (Accession and Manifestation are just 20% stronger Succor and Adlo, respectively) 2. Grant a regen-like effect to heal the party without using healing gcd's (100p regen vs 150p "Kardia") You say Eudaimonia has potential to overheal when it's not needed due to the necessity to roll your gcd for dps, but isn't that even more true of the Seraphism's regen effect, which you have NO control over? At the same time, Eudaimonia heals for 50% more, and will of course also heal more often than the regen ticking every 3 seconds (assuming you're rolling the gcd of course). Furthermore, you say Seraphism works well because healing gcd's are expected to be timed well. But Eudaimonia also procs on those healing gcd's, essentially functioning like a Plenary and adding a flat 150 potency to each gcd (which somewhat makes up for E.Prog being 100 potency under Succor by default). Isn't that just more healing per GCD than scholar can put out, even with Seraphism active? Seraphism obviously has 2 unique effects over Philosophia: Instant gcd heals for the duration (which are baseline for Sage shields), and no cooldown on Emergency tactics. While this is strong, I feel like this is only advantageous over Sage if you somehow require an absolutely massive amount of healing and there is also no concurrent damage to break shields between the casts. In that situation, Sage would be forced to spam normal Prognosis due to Pepsis not being spammable or buffed by Philosophia, which obviously is nowhere near the output Scholar can do with Emergency Manifestation. Is this a situation you see realistically happening a decent amount in prog? Is this just a case of Seraphism solving a bigger issue for Scholar (mobile, continuous gcd healing) than Philosophia does for Sage (Kind of just more of what Sage is already good at), thus ending up a "stronger" ability? Or is it something else that makes Seraphism complement Scholar's kit so much better than Philosophia for Sage? If you got this far, thanks for reading!

I'm new to healers and could use a bit of advice. How do you guys keep your 1 key from wearing out? Mine is already faded beyond the point of recognition since I've started and I'd like to do something about it. I was thinking of buying a foot pedal and macroing it to that key and playing with that. That way at least my keyboard (specificlly just one key really) won't get worn out and broken. It'll also let me get deeper sleep whenever I run dungeons since it'll be easier to press.

Actually , i'm here wondering how you accidentally put Scholar in sages place on your thumbnail

As enjoyable as Baneful Impaction is to use, it does suck to know that it is the weakest attack out of the other healers'. SCH - 700 max, less if target dies or withdraws before duration expires WHM - +310 gain per gcd x3 = 930; it does have aoe falloff AST - 860 no strings attached SGE - 600 x2 = 1200, albeit one is not under raid buffs

I don't have anything interesting to say again so I'jj just leave this comment for engagement

I agree with you about these changes, only that I don't want them to homogenize panhaima. I think making the jobs more diverse is a good thing and I hope SE continues to do that, giving each job something unique

THERE IT IS!! I guess I'm out 10 bucks

Holy shit he actually did it. Poggies

Sage gets "the better" new damage skill out of all the healers (not a follow up attack) but the least interesting level 100 skill 🫠

What happened with the previous video ? Barely started watching it before it was removed 😢

.....maybe I should just play white mage

Bad. Wait till a few patches.

The cards do more than just buff dmg!? SHOOT I BEEN PLAYING ASTRO WRONG

I hear that our lvl 100 capstone ability is kind of just...under whelming

I just can't get behind this card system tbh, I already know how Im going to play my next 3 cards before I even hit draw its just sad. I miss the reactive gameplay this class used to have, now its just a slapped down watered version of aetherflow tied to 2 tank CD's and a dps card...ontop of this the cards are (mostly) already copies of oGCD's that AST already has....

why the fuck would you want to in general, but what "strategizing" do you think spamming your AOE takes? beyond literally "DERR MAKE AOE HIT MEN-E ENEMEEEZ!"... lets be realistic here, and why would you WANT to have to "strategize" to AOE? that just sounds asinine, this coming from someone that ran with Last Call the #3 guild in the US during wotlk(ulduar tier) during wow's height in popularity, the statement is just so..... dumb/goofy i cant even comprehend why you'd want that, in combat in general? yeah sure, boss fights? sure, literally spamming your(for healers) SINGLE BUTTON AOE..... what are you smoking?

I miss my slot machine. the fact you don't have to respond to anything and could play all your dps cards with an auto hotkey script sucks.

MP reg is fine with lvl 100 in ex trials and dungeons. never had any prob. i enjoy astro like back in heavensword. between that and dawntrail astro was pain to play

Would you be interested in doing a video over your current HUD. I'm looking for a change and/or some ideas and I like your setup.

Ast going from the most mobile healer to the least mobile healer shows that they have no idea what they want to do with ast.

Wait, does the arrow work with oGCD heals? I always thought it was GCDs only. So if it says action it's oGCD too?

Hi Momo, can you show up your macro card ?