Nocturnal Astrologian in Endwalker - Why we need it FFXIV

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Published on May 17, 2022 6:35:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzRld5zVFY

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Nocturnal Astrologian deserves to existin FFXIV. I'm never going to be over it. Nocturnal Astrologian was my favorite healer to play alongside my main, Scholar.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Nocturnal Astrologian PLEASE COME BACK
1:26 Endwalker Version of Nocturnal Astrologian
1:47 Celestial Intersection - Astrologian Kardia and Fairy Equivalent
3:30 Celestial Opposition - Solid Barriers with Flexibility
4:58 Collective Unconscious - Multi-Hit Management
5:58 Limits of Macrocosmos and Nocturnal Astrologian
7:00 Mitigation in Noct AST Viability
7:24 Big Barriers on AST and Neutral Sect
8:30 My Thanos Glove of Barriers in FFXIV
9:51 Baseline Aspected Benefic and Aspected Helios
10:13 Astrologian also retains it's Astrologian qualities
11:08 PLEASE GIVE US NOCTURNAL ASTROLOGIAN BACK PLEASE!


Hey guy’s it’s yo boi Evyx.

I’m still not over the removal of nocturnal astrologian. I want it back please pretty please. A few nights ago I sat down and for my own fun hashed out what would Nocturnal Astrologian look like today in a modern Final Fantasy XIV setting.

Then I got salty as fudge and decided to throw this video together about how we could have an incredibly awesome healer that could fill in a sorely missed niche.

An engaging rotation on a barrier healer. There. I said it. Time for my comments to explode in fire. Did you all forget I am the same one that said quite literally years ago I find Scholar’s rotation of broil spam boring? Outside of savage content or ultimate, which I am taking Scholar into dragonsong’s reprise ultimate-- it’s just not that engaging which always always pulled me to play Astro for it’s card gameplay. For all of astrologian’s still simple gameplay the card system pushed it above and beyond for me as a barrier healer player with its fun cards.

Now let’s explore what a current modern nocturnal astrologian would look like, and I think people will be extremely positive to it. If anything, a modern day astrologian would be significantly more differentiated than even Sage and Scholar.

Let’s start out with the basic heal over time effect trickle that Scholar always has been famous for with their pet-- you know the real healer as I’m out here doing damage. Eos and Kardia are persistent heal over time effects. But did you know celestial intersection for nocturnal astrologian used to be a very powerful targeted heal over time effect on a low cooldown? It healed for 950 potency per use on a 30 second cooldown timer. In a modern setting this would not change, other than the fact it now has up to 2 charges. Which might make it seem too similar to Kardia or the fairy people might be concerned about. Aha, not at all! It’s not a persistent effect given it’s 15 second duration and with 2 charges you could opt to cleave this across say two tanks being smashed into the dirt, or to heal a damaged DPS or any number of things. This can satisfy a very different set of niche situations.

Intrigued? We’re just getting started.

Celestial opposition used to be a skill that could apply a small off GCD barrier to the party, of course the skill got significant power value tweaks like cooldown lowered to 60 seconds and a huge power boost to now an aoe 700 potency heal. To approximate what it would do today it would likely be something like an upfront heal of 250 potency and a followup barrier of 250 potency. Essentially this is to match the power of Scholar’s Seraph’s consolation.

Now that might seem boring to some, but it being on a 60 second cooldown versus Seraph locked in at a 2 minute cooldown with 22 seconds duration means these would be far more flexible to apply and frankly depending on the damage structure of the encounter potentially vastly superior. If there are only death threatening AOEs every minute rather than in quick succession panhaima from sage of seraph consolation would simply not be available for that second one.

Though not without their own merits, Seraph and Panhaima are brilliant in their own niches. Seraph at the same time bathes the field in powerful single target seraphic veils, panhaima simply has revolting value in multiple quick hit AOE. So this would still keep all 3 actually addressing 3 very different concerns and retain uniqueness.

Next up is collective unconscious which today does a 500 potency area of effect heal to the party, which is oddly enough in line with sacred soil from scholar and sacred soil from sage. If timed at the proper moment it can provide mitigation for a single blow without decreasing your uptime.

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