Wesk: *uploads AST guide* Me, a level 90 AST main running savage: “time to learn how to play my job!!”

@simply.r6219

Жыл бұрын

same!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@GrandGobboBarb

Жыл бұрын

"oh, right. synastry exists. that would make my life so much easier" *continues to forget to use it*

@pleasedontkillme1185

Жыл бұрын

​@@GrandGobboBarb currently level 69 and I've never felt like I've had a single situation yet where synastry would be necessary to use lmao

@rtiq270

9 ай бұрын

@@pleasedontkillme1185 Mt. Gulg 🥲 I attempted that last pull like 3-4 times with a friend group and still couldn't manage it, even after I remembered to put Synastry back on a HB.

Great guide overall, but you forgot to mention the other effects of Macrocosmos: That all cards sent to the GY are instead Banished, and that you can Special Summon "Helios- The Primordial Sun" from your deck.

@dragonhearthx8369

2 жыл бұрын

I wish

@raarasunai4896

Жыл бұрын

That’s funny that is shared the name

@callmeobsequious

Жыл бұрын

I think about this so much more than I probably should tbh

@pangelsaya

Жыл бұрын

Yes but Helios sucks and is not worth having in your deck

@raarasunai4896

Жыл бұрын

@@pangelsaya Until you upgrade it to Aspected Helios. Party wide Heal over time is solid

The fact that you are doing all of these job guides AGAIN shows great dedication. Your guides are fantastic. Thank you for your hard work! Also I never would have guessed that Albert Wesker would be coaching me on Final Fantasy jobs. It's like a dream crossover 😆.

@axelbjefs

2 жыл бұрын

He is the ultimate mentor.

Gotta love that Undraw callback. I’m baffled it’s survived this long

@Shakzor1

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, they decluttered quite a bit like GNB gunpowder combo being just one bar (or atleast something got put into one button), yet this still exists... minor arcana got way worse, but it's still usable, unlike undraw

@Castersvarog

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shakzor1 it’s like, of all the skills in the game undraw is factually the most useless one to ever exist. Nothing comes even close

@caturiges

2 жыл бұрын

@@Castersvarog Physic as SMN is a top contender too.

@yinepuiwhite3955

2 жыл бұрын

@@caturiges Physick is great for low level content, and has been super fun for low level undersize challenge runs or just low level play- I'd rather they not remove it for that niche community.

@GayLPer

2 жыл бұрын

Let's say you're waiting to move forward (example: Royal City of Rabanastre, making your way through the waterways, and you're the first ones at the intersection), and you have two signs, and you don't get a new one with redraw, but you know it's going to be more than 30 seconds before you get to the next combat. Undraw to have another chance at getting three signs. Yes, I found an EXTREMELY niche use for Undraw. Would I be upset if it vanished? ABSOLUTELY not. However, I thought people wanted players to have more options, even if they were useless ones like Undraw.

The ProZD references. I love it! I mained Astrologian through all the content I do so thank you so much for this.

Dude, you keep delivering. I really hope you get the audience you deserve.

Man these videos are just so well done, blown away every time. Great job!!

Watching all of these as they release, then gonna watch the full playlist, then watch the ones I need on loop. These are the most informative guides I've come across for just about anything

Before I watched your video, I already dropped undraw, but what I did do was aiming for 3 signs too intensely. However, I noticed I had to redraw or draw so many times extra instead of playing cards, not buffing anytime at all. I eventually just started playing cards trying to aim them on the right dps. Even if I didn’t get the right cards for the right dps, I played them anyway, because 3% increased damage is still 3% in stead of waiting 30secs and not giving a buff at all. I guess people might judge me, but for me this gives me a way better feeling which feels just right even if it may not be ideal. Thank you for your videos, they helped me soo much 😁

These guides have helped me so much. It really puts everything into perspective.

I learned two things from this video: 1, that AST is not for me, and 2, that there's that safe spot on the final boss of Smileton

The thumbnails for your endwalker guides so far have been OUTSTANDING!

Great job dude, all classes that I play I learned from your guides, it’s really very helpful

Great guides, hope for you continued growth, you deserve it

Love the thumbnail dude! I got all my classes to 90 but i still click on your videos cause i enjoy watching them ❤

Your videos are blessing for me. You explained me how to use each skill, when and where. Love it. From WHM / RDM /SAM and now AST

I've been using all of your tank and healer guides since I'm finally leveling them (after years of being lazy to do so). They're so well though out, and everything is broken down. Thanks! Can't wait for your Dawntrail updated guides😀

always, ALWAYS hyped to see another guide

Thank you so much! AST is the only class I have left under level 70, but it has been really confusing to me for some reason. This video REALLY helps make sense of everything!

Ah, The Undraw joke got me in the original video, and got me again in this guide. I applaud you.

I've just started leveling Astro to 90. It's my last job to get to max level(outside of crafting/gathering and blue mage). Even though I have been playing this game almost since it came out, I still come back to your videos just to refresh my memory on a particular job. They have been an invaluable source of information. Thank you for all your hard work from a fellow Midgarsomr player.

You're a life saver for this, you saved me so much grief thinking about my gameplay 🙏

Appreciate the Undraw coverage

As an astro main I was waiting for this. Thanks for what you do, Wesk.

Oh thank you so much. I've been leveling healers and I wanted to level AST to endgame, but I wasn't sure how much their toolkit has changed since EW release. You made this just in time for me.

Just picked up Astro this week, this is going to be such a boon! Thank you.

this guide has been insanely useful to me while learning how to deal with astrologian while leveling and i just about lost it at Undraw, haha, thanks for making them just as entertaining as they are informative

I'm leveling AST now, so this is perfect timing for me

Honestly you're the best guide I've found anytime I go after a new job I go to your guide for it and everyone in my house watches your videos now

Came to this video just to understand how Macrocosmos work. Thanks for video! Can’t wait for the other ones.

An outstanding guide you’ve made here! Until I had to pay attention to different job icons, I had no idea which DPS icons were melee/ranged or even the name associated with each one. What’s helped me is left clicking on a party member in the list and hitting “view search info.” It shows a list of every job they’ve leveled with its icon by category. I’ll pull it up on myself and set it off to the side at the beginning of a raid or if I get confused in a dungeon. It’s a great little cheat sheet to check while learning! The best AST starting tip I’ve gotten so far was from Jolsn FFXIV’s guide. Bring your party list closer to the middle of the screen. Set up a vertical hotbar on the left so that the icons line up with each party member name (you might have to mess with the scaling and placement a bit but it’s worth it). Create a play button macro for each target on that hotbar. He even gives a list of macros that you can copy and paste into each slot so you don’t have to write them yourself. It takes one step out of having to draw, then target the desired player, then press play. Instead you just draw and click the macro button next to the target name.

Starting strong with that amazing intro JAKDKAKKRKAK HELL YEAH!

As a new player coming from WoW these guides are quite helpful. Thank you. It is interesting to see the parallels between WoW and FF14 class design. Synastry for example is the same mechanic as Beacon of Light form the Holy Paladin healing class in WoW

I'm bad at Healer because I'm not as fast with the buttons as I used to be. Mostly I just play healer because I want to know what the stories are and then go back to DPS. You're guides help me fake being good at the jobs so thank you.

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Added in the most recent patch is a nice upgrade. Redraw will never give you a card sharing the same sign as the one you were holding when you hit it. That guarantees 2 signs for Astrodyne and makes 3 signs about a 50/50 chance

Thank you for making this, you have clarified some versatility for skills like synastry that I would not have thought of. It’s true astro is bloated but I do enjoy having multiple solutions to multiple problems in content

For cards, I set up an extra hotbar with 8 macros, and what they do is giving my current card to a specific player (example, macro nr. 7 gives the card to player 7). It makes the button bloat even worse, but it makes up for it by making giving the card to who I want way easier, since I don't have to change target back and forth between the enemy/tank and who gets the buff. For anyone interested, the macro is /ac "Play" Copypaste the line about 7-8 times for each macro (helps with consistency if you have bad ping) and change the number from 1 to 8 for each macro. Top it off with /micon "play" (changes the macro icon to the play button, and it even changes automatically to show the card like the "normal" ability) and you're good to go

@Castersvarog

2 жыл бұрын

That’s something similar I do with a lot of skills that target specific players, like thunderclap, aetherial manipulation, etc minus being a macro. Though I always forget about it though

@thomasnguyen4427

2 жыл бұрын

I just click on the party list lol

@InFluxCapacitor

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with macros are that they can't be queued like with GCDs and oGCDs. They're also dependant on ping, hardware, and server tick rate. All of this can cause severe GCD clipping especially when you double weave

Thank you a lot for this guide

BIG Respect for the ProZD gag at the start

I kinda main healer and play all 3 healers prior Endwalker. (4 after I tried Sage for couples of leveling roulette, and quite enjoyable) Fortunately, I reach lv50 Astro when the Endwalker came out. So kinda lucky that I get into Astro after the rework was done. Now I really enjoy Astro very much (much enough I changed from WHM to Astro) In fact, I just go have way through 5.3 and really struggle about how and when to use Neutral Sect. This clarifies things a lot. Basically, I just use for enhancing my healing potency and think the shield as a bonus, or toggle it when either stack-up marker or raid wide damage (either before using Collective Unconscious or Unconscious on CD) seems legit enough I can think of for Neutral Sect. Thank you

Been waiting for this one AST best healer in Endwalker !

This video is perfect timing I'm going to be leveling my astrological from 80 to 90 soon!

Love your videos 🥰

I think im gonna love that class

had an astro who kept healing me for 69k in the expert dungeons with macrocosmos when I was a WAR right as I ran out of bloodwhetting, that was one of the smoothest runs I've done

13:20 I was today years old when I learned that they have different colors. I just memorized the symbols, which isn't easy after coming back to the game after six months. Cheers.

I like how "Astrologian" is pronounced differently here and there. thanks for the video!

Enjoying consulting this guide. I'm almost at lvl 40 on Astro as I write this and I've been enjoying myself blazing through low level dungeons. The card thing is rather hassle free and I do not really worry about it. Contrasting this mainly with how Scholar felt in the early dungeons, I do miss Eos's Embrace but as a trade off Astrologian feels truly unchained, I don't really need to play around Aether charges to bust out the big heals. I also do miss Ruin II from Scholar but Lightspeed is interesting enough on its own.

@Rewwgh

5 ай бұрын

Reached level 90 today. Took me those 8 months because I had been playing on and off. Generally I really enjoy the high octane gameplay Astrologian has, multiple things to track and press with the right timing. Buffing friendly damage is great. However I just generally feel less safe playing AST than Scholar. And a big part of it is Lightspeed as well as the lack of a fairy. I also cannot stress how nice Ruin II and Expediency are for mobility. When I want a more hectic and channeling healing experience, I definitely want to go Astro. But for general day to day stuff, Scholar is still my preference.

Here's how I remember who to put the cards on: Red = Ranged Teal = Touch (melee)

Are you doing guides for tanks as well? Your monk/pugilist and thaumaturge/black mage has been very useful for me, since their rotation has been revamped in Endwalker!!

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

every job

Why is every opening so good?! ^_^ I'm a white mage main, but have been having fun doofing around with Astro, looking forward to learning more.

Thank you so much for the video - it was absolutely fantastic. I love the job - it's why I started playing Final Fantasy XIV Online in the first place. But I have to say -- the damage output? "Subpar" doesn't even begin to describe it. It might not matter when grouped with other doing dungeons, trials, raids and whatnot, but when forced into solo duties, it becomes tragically apparent. After dying three times in rapid succession in the "Worthy of Her Back" quest, I decided to take an extended break until patch 7.0 is released (I understand this will be the second time that the job has been retooled), as it's supposed to resolve balancing issues. If so, I sincerely hope that damage output is at the top of the list of things that were addressed

@WeskAlber

Жыл бұрын

While AST DPS IS very low, the Duty fails is likely more mechanical. Everything can easily clear MSQ, its just how quick can differ.

Oh yes, I been waiting for this!. Am like a potato when it comes to Astrologer to the point I bought a skip because I knew the old play style was going to die so why bother with an empty husk. So I waited for something of this style, Thank you Wesker for this I needed this.

I was a AST main till the end of Shadowbringer. After the reveal of the new AST i was so shocked at what they did to this class that i needed to switch back to my old love SCH :D I really miss the old operner and the cardmanagement but seeing my little fairy is also pretty nice :D I

thank you!

As someone who watched most of the 1 to 80 guides, I'm really liking the little "from this to this" jokes in the new guides.

Always make sure to sell your cards - whoever bids most gets the card buffs. Very nice!

This intro is comedy gold great video like normal

Cheers dude.

Would a combo be Neutral Sect + Horoscope + Aspected Helios for max shields and healing?

Macrocosmos: “there would need to be a lot of damage with healing in between for the max effect” P10s: Allow me to introduce myself

Hey, I love ur series of FF14’s guides, it helped me so much… Could you please make one for Scholars 1 to 90, please? I saw that you made one but it was a Shadowbringers guide! I really appreciate all of your work on making videos like these

@corbentimms9443

2 жыл бұрын

He's going to be doing them all, there is votes for which order to do them on his patreon I believe

@iPlayOnSpica

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like for a scholar one to appear very soon.

The way I've played at least 10 instances of astrologian at 50 without knowing the divination sign bonus got added to a new spell that's not even on my hit bar....

AST generates cards like crazy these days, I'm like the Oprah of buffs

ah yes. button bloat the class. I love it. This is the only class where I have 4 hotbars for all my skills not to mention an entire hotbar for a play macro because targeting is hard sometimes

I might be the odd one out of the bunch, but Astrologian became my favorite healer in this game because of how busy the job is. I just enjoy the versatile kit it has and the fact that there's other things to do outside of your one button attack and whenever healing isn't needed at the time. Loved the job the moment I picked it up last year when I was in Heavensward and it's still my main healer now. Although I do agree that Lord and Lady of Crowns could be condensed to one button like in the PvP modes.

@m-zero3146

2 жыл бұрын

I love Astro especially when Earthly Star explodes right after the boss raid wide damage makes me feel kinda genius 🤣

@floorprincess

2 жыл бұрын

@@m-zero3146 I love when it's very close to a wipe and Star just saves the day out of nowhere. You have a brief moment of 'who was that?' and then ohhhhh I'm amazing obviously

@lindaa9005

2 жыл бұрын

it used to be my favourite, it became too clunky in ew, now sage is so much smoother

A good AST can be hard to find, but when they're good? They're *_GODLY._*

I definitely dont need this but watching it anyway

I wish you had covered mouseover macros a bit when playing cards on team members. I just finished the cards/further tips section and I didnt see it. So what it does to anyone curious: If you hover your mouse over a party member's name (in the party list) or over their actual character and activate the macro, it immediately assigns your current card to that person without having to select them. This results in a lot more streamlined experience where you dont constantly have to target switch in order to manage cards while also healing/doing damage

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

Cuz I don't use macros.

@adamm1117

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber For healing they can be super nice, especially for single target stuff. I dont think I could manage the card system otherwise - I'm just not good enough mechanically

@adamm1117

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber OH! I also wanted to say - I absolutely love your guides. I think you're amazing for making these so detailed and I can't imagine how much thought and effort goes into these. Laying out rotations _as we're levelling_ has been absolutely amazing and something that's been tremendously useful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting these together for us

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamm1117 Yeah I know they can be super useful, but the concept of a MO macro just seems unintuitive and harder to use than my current play. I could have mentioned it exists at the least though. It just got away from me I guess. Thank you for the kind words though

Hey, Random but I noticed you customized your WXHB bars, (the extra two Cross Hotbar things you can enable), How did you do that? Mine are completely uneditable!

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

The way I understand it is you set the WXHB to be a specific set of the 8 crossbars. so my WXHB is crossbar 8, edit that using the main Crossbar UI, then swap that to 7 for the main bar

I free play Astro, I have no opener. Lmfao

Awesome video here and excellent coverage. You do have a minor error about Macrocosmos though: you said 100 potency for every enemy after the first but 40% less is 60% which, of 250 potency, is actually 150 potency. Just thought anyone watching this should be aware.

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

Oops. It's going to get used anyway so minor error. But thank you for pointing it out

Watching this out of curiosity because I am not ready for healing...then realising I am that pesky DPS ;-;

Ty

52:25 Where/when was the living dead rework announced?

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

During the "next 10 years" Live Letter. The Q&A it was asked and he said DRK and LD getting some changes, WHM some changes - probably old Thin Air back - and some potentially other jobs. As a result if you were hoping for a DRK or WHM vid soon, expect nothing. I'm waiting for the patch for those.

I made a account YEARS ago, but I have around a level 80 Astrologian. I want to get back in the game but I honestly don't remember anything of there kit. I'm kinda nervous to get back in, because I don't want to que up for something my level and fail the team as there healer.

@tholm891

5 ай бұрын

Late comment but just let the group know at the start of the run. MOST people won't care that much, and the ones that do *shrug* just get through the run and you'll never see them again. I very much prefer when people let me know they're uncomfortable before I try a wall to wall pull and end up dying.

"From this.... to this!" and you didn't use the clip from 5.3 of Urianger being COMPLETELY extra with his cards...!

literally got to 87 just then this is perfect time

Benefic? In this economy?

I feel like I have too many skills for my hotbars with Astologian trying to get it set up myself so using this to check if I got my 3 hot bars laid out correctly. Edit: Good use of ProZD meme audio for this. Edit2: moving some things from the dps bar to the heal bar but mostly correct. edit3: See putting Sprint/limit break/sleep/rescue off your main hotbars to give some space is interesting especially since my main 36 is full ATM (with having call/uncall ascend set up.)

small timestamp correction: horoscope has the wrong timestamp on it.

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, hit 2 instead of 3

14:27 You legit scared me for a second

Squenix: Alright WHM u get a Strong AoE Heal that activates when u get hit multiple times WHM: Uh boy so i can greed and heal! Squenix: And u Scholar get a AoE Mitigation + Incombat Peloton! SCH: Oh man so i can finally make thos fuckers move their asses fast enough, love it! Squenix: And our new Friend here comes with a AoE Heal that at the same time serves as a Attack so he has no Downtime! SGE: Yes, damage, agree Squenix: Oh and finally my dear Astrologian .... have a AoE Benedicition! WHM, SCH, SGE: .... WHAT!?

"just be wary of that one black mage sitting at the far corner of austria" i loled

Did you say „the black mage sitting at the far corner of Austria“? lol Austria is tiny, I bet even if you put him on the furthest spot, Helios would still reach xD

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but my audience is mostly American.

You made Yu-Gi-Oh references but forgot about Macro Cosmos's ability to banish cards that would be sent to the GY instead!

My AST opener inputs: -30: Draw Between -15 and -5 (To align with groupwide damage): Earthly Star -2: Lightspeed 0: Combust (Target->Play->Draw->Tab target) 2.5: Malefic (Target->Play/Redraw->Draw/Minor Arcana-> Tab target) 5: Malefic (Target->Divination->Play->Tab target) 7.5: Malefic (Astrodyne/Draw->Minor Arcana/Lucid Dreaming) From there I just kinda roll with things, play my last card then sigh with relief

But what does Pot of Greed do again?

@dragonhearthx8369

2 жыл бұрын

It turns you into the machinist.

@michaeltheaegis

3 ай бұрын

Allows you to draw 2 more cards.

Synastry is something i rarely used cause I A) forget about it. and B) did not about how to use it. And now I know how to use Astrodyne. Thanks for that tip.

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

Synastry is one of AST's absolute best buttons imo. When other healers run out of oGCD heals, they're just stuck with wimpy GCD heals. AST has Synastry to super power their GCDs with a bunch of other potential flexibility on it.

@arzedeutwitchvods1670

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber hmm... that got me thinking. Pairing Macrocosmos with Synsastry and the current Living Dead could be really useful.

@Zendelxex

2 жыл бұрын

@@arzedeutwitchvods1670 synastry only work on single target spells. Macro isnt single target. I find syn + benefic 2 into ED the best way to full heal tank invuls.

I got this job to 90….and I HATE it! If I had a way to macro who I throw the cards to, that’d ease the pain, but I don’t see how I can on console. As Wesk says “there’s just so many buttons!” I’m giving some consideration to putting Astro’s attack spells on macros to always target the enemy, but I know that’ll cause some loss of damage due to macro jank. Might be worth it for dungeons though.

@Liquefaction

10 ай бұрын

agreed. i can't stand the cards mechanic. they feel so weak considering the amount of nonsense they add trying to weave and double weave shit

@raarasunai4896

10 ай бұрын

@@Liquefaction I did learn a fact that makes it a bit easier on console. I had an option toggled off, but basically it lets you highlight a party member for 1 action, then snaps back to your previous target. It's called Soft Targetting, but there's an option that makes switching to a party member a Hard target. That still doesn't mean I like Astro, but it eases the pain a bit

@tholm891

5 ай бұрын

​@@raarasunai4896 this needs to be pinned and shouted out to the world. I've been playing on console since the end of Stormblood and had no idea about the soft targeting thing. Thank you so much. ❤

what is the song playing at 34:12

@WeskAlber

Жыл бұрын

Song lists in outros and intros. In this case, Equilibrium

The card game joke is so triggering but also enjoyable

I always call them sun moon and star, instead of sun moon and orb.

Act makes card targets so easy lol

me, AST main: take my likes bro

What stats should i focus on just starting out?

@WeskAlber

11 ай бұрын

MND

@tholm891

5 ай бұрын

While I do technically agree with Wesker here, you will be burning through gear so fast that it won't matter. Between quest rewards and dungeon loot you will be getting upgrades fast. After ARR the only gear you can equip will focus on mind primarily anyway. Secondary stat priorities only become important in current endgame content

I wish i could give more than 1 like just for the first 45s. 😂

huh i could swear benefic 1 used to have a shorter cast time

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

It did, but they adjusted cast times across the board. Adlo and Cure 2 are only 2.0 still though

@Zoeila

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber ah i see i only remembered because i remember and add phase on A12S where the tanks were getting spanked by adds and i would alternate 1 and 2 because 1's cast used to be shorter. ill have to keep this in mind for the future.

What's your opinion on the new card system? Personally i dont like how they removed sleeve draw, and the lady and lord of crowns being a separate draw and totally reliant on rng. It felt like you had more control on the outcome of your cards during shb.

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

ShB and EW Card system are both terrible, equally boring, equally chore filled. Bring back HW/SB Cards

@blackmagekongs2588

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber interesting i never played during hw and sb. What made the card system better back then?

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackmagekongs2588 The Balance: Damage Up The Bole: Defense Up The Spear: Crit up The Arrow: Speed Up The Spire: TP Up (could become DH) The Ewer: MP up We also had Royal Road which burns a card to power the next. Balance and Bole: Next Card is double the power. Spear and Arrow: Next Card is double length Spire and Ewer: Next Card is AoE (party wide) but half power You could also put a desired card in a Hold space

@blackmagekongs2588

2 жыл бұрын

@@WeskAlber that seems...complicated lol.

@WeskAlber

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackmagekongs2588 And yet was easier than Signs