![]() Nocturnal just doesn’t feel viable when compared to Diurnal. If that wasn’t bad enough, Nocturnal Benefic costs 1000 MP now, 1/10 of my MP with the new cap, and Diurnal Benefic costs only 500, so double the “healing” for half the cost, and it shows. I believe the tick rate is every 3s, so that’s around 1000 potency, about double the effectiveness. Diurnal gives a regen with a 200 potency for 15 seconds. Nocturnal grants a shield for 250% of the amount healed, 500 potency, basically. Just as a quick comparison, when you use Aspected Benefic, you get a 200 potency heal and one of two effects depending on stance. For what it’s worth, Diurnal does seem to be a much better deal, having tried it. Now, when I went to do the first dungeon in ShB, we had a mentor tank who suggested very early on that “as a former astro, you would be better using diurnal in dungeons.” I shrugged that off at first, because it was fine before, right? As time went on, though, I had to admit that maybe it was fine. I was struggling and confused because I didn’t feel like I was doing anything different, but even in content I knew and was familiar with I could barely keep up. If felt like the damage inflicted on the group was extremely intense and I had to stay on the tank to keep them alive, spamming heals, spamming shields, and using Lucid Dreaming on cooldown to maintain MP. The first thing I noticed after the patch was that I could barely keep up. Functionally it worked very well, shield the tank, heal the tank, poke and/or use cards as required, then see where I’m at, healing and shielding and/or DPS as needed. ![]() This had never tended to be an issue for me, though it wasn’t always the mathematically superior choice. See, I tended to use the “nocturnal sect,” a shielding spec, unless I was in an 8-man with a scholar. Considering the amount of salt regarding healers and the fact that I’m maining what appeared to be the least popular job of the least popular role, Astrologian.įirst though, I think I need to talk about before 5.0. ![]() So, with the weekend behind me, I feel like I can at least begin to comment a little bit. UPDATE: I wrote a follow-up piece to this after I completed the MSQ and had a chance to get some raiding done. ![]()
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