Astrologian Advanced Guide for Level 51-90: Openers and Healing Advice Included! [FFXIV 6.40+]

Level by level, I explain how the tools of the Astrologian works, including tons of advice on using your healing tools! This culminates in an explanation of how to play Astrologian at max level going over the Opener, general rotation, and how to heal efficiently in a dungeon or a raid!
I also have an Astrologian level 30-50 starter guide if you need the beginning • Astrologian Starter Gu...
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Slidecasting Short: • Crucial Mechanics to M...
Global Cooldown Short: • Crucial Mechanics to M...
Weaving Short: • Crucial Mechanics to M...
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Music Used:
FFXIV Endwalker - Cradle of Hope
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Level 51-60 Ability Based Healing over Time
01:58 Level 61-70 Earthly Star and Minor Arcana
04:31 Level 71-80 Celestial Intersection and Horoscope
06:46 Level 81-90 Exaltation and Macrocosmos
09:21 Level 90 Opener
10:20 General attacking advice and regarding 2 Minute Bursts
10:59 Dungeon Pull Healing and Attacking Advice
12:44 Raid Healing Tips and Advice
13:52 Stat Priorities
16:23 Fun Fact

[@kain1799]

Me (who's probably gonna have ast be the absolutely last job I level up months from now): hmm yes interesting

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

Well I am glad you found it interesting or entertaining regardless! 😄

[@TonyGarcia-px5ll]

Yoo I'm leveling AST right now. It's my last job to 90 and I'm so lost that I decided to look up this video specifically for dungeon pulls LOL. Nice video!

[@girlshapedrobot]

Thank you for your clear guides! The popups are super helpful along with the actual combat footage. Loving astro rn as a newer player, but the double weaving cards and timing them based on the minutes scares me 😂 it'd be nice to be able to practice it on dummies or something, but the cooldowns are so long 😢

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

Thank you so much! :D If you are still learning the job, it might be easier to focus on playing cards in general, and pick up the big card bursts as you get more experience with the job! However, if you do want to practice this right now, then that is also perfectly fine! It can be hard to practice both because of the random part, and how in reality there will be different players to play your cards on, however, what you could do is bring your chocobo companion, and go to the Stone, Sky, Sea, and practice there! Use your Chocobo to "simulate" a melee DPS, and yourself as a Ranged DPS, and just ignore the fact that sometimes you will have to overwrite your buffs. If you have not tried the Stone, Sky, Sea yet, I have a guide on this, although it is from a while ago, it is still accurate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npPcemOsZpaCbdE The benefit of the Stone, Sky, Sea is that whenever you enter, it resets all your cooldowns. So if you mess up right after the opener, or during it. You can just exit, and reenter and try again almost immediately! For timing the cards on the minute, I normally watch Draw itself! After the opener, you draw when you can, and then when you have 1 more card charge, that is when a minute has passed! After that the focus turns to Divination to keep track. It isn't perfect, but it can be nicer than trying to count the time! :D

[@raarasunai4896]

This is an extremely hard job for console players(like myself) due to a lack of point and click targeting. Switching to the correct card target and back to the enemy every 2.5 seconds is not easy when you have to hit the up or down directional buttons up to 5 times to reach the intended target, and the sheer number of actions it has does not allow for “Play” macros. I really hope the rework makes this job more console friendly in some way. I really want to get good at this job, since I just completed a sick Seto Kaiba glam for it 😂

[@MAJMarxism]

I use 5 cross hotbars on my astro (just got her to 60 so I may die from lack of buttons eventually) and the lt-->rt is dedicated to play on playerslot X and then target-target macros while rt-->lt is dedicated to targeting players 2-8 and a target target macro

[@Ymirsabella]

good guide makes me both interested and terrified to try AST

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

Thank you so much, Ymir! Remember, it doesn't have to be perfect, just try your best and you will become better!

[@DevilSeiji]

Meld piety??? OVER MY DEAD BODY Also yoshi p I need assize to regen more mp pls :( Thx for the dungeon rotation. Feels like I had to look all over yt for this x.x

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

I'm glad you found what you were looking for 😊 I do hope you enjoy astrologian! With or without piety! 😂

[@silasisawesome]

I've basically just started leveling Astro, so the stars really aligned for me on this one. One thing I do wonder about is how macro/microcosmos interact with tank invulns. I'm guessing Superbulide's HP reduktion doesn't count as damage, and thus macro/micro won't give any of that back, but what about Holmgang or Living Dead? Do attaks that would have brought you passed 1 HP get the full damage you would otherwise have taken complield, or does it only count the damage that actually reduces your HP? I doubt the answer will matter much in practice, I just think it's interesting to think about.

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

That is a very good question! Unfortunately I am not sure what the answer is and have no easy way to test it! 😅 Based on the wording of the tooltip alone, I would guess that it might count damage taken past 1 hp with holmgang or living dead since you still take the damage, but it is possible it only counts damage down to 1 hp. Superbolide sets your hp to 1 without dealing damage, and it and hallowed ground makes you take 0 damage from attacks so it makes sense they both prevent macrocosmos from working 😊

[@mon-6166]

Those are some big ass hotbars

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

They are big so you can better see them! ^^

[@3zzzTyle]

Man I look at these "opener" tables with 30 icons for any job and just decide to stick to Normal forever. No idea how anyone got time and/or IQ to learn that.

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

I think it is mainly about some practice! A huge part about openers is also understanding the reasons why you do things in the opener, because if you understand why you do it, then you might not need to remember the exact order of things since you'll know intuitively when to do what! But outside of optimization when trying to do the absolute maximum damage in Savage boss fights and such, you don't *need* to do the perfect openers, but sometimes they can be nice as a guideline for what to work towards as you practice and maybe want to get better 😊

[@CrimsonTentacle]

Honestly you can be succesful in Savage without a perfect opener - as long as you're mindful of damage bursts and align your buffing abilities with the rest of the team, you're fine! My mentor healer used to say that these AST openers are something to strive to once you're comfortable with the fight and your kit and actually have the brain space for optimization. As long as your team is alive, your cards are played and your buffs used, you're doing your job!

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

Absolutely correct! Optimizing openers and rotations come with time, and in a savage fight with a lot of mechanics, you may need to even relearn it matched to that specific fight! Learn to heal and keep the team alive first, then play your cards, and then start thinking of optimizing. One step at a time! 😁

[@realityoverdrive4059]

It's just memorisation. Like a fighting game combo or a bosses attack patterns. It shouldn't take that long, either. Most DPS rotations take like 10 minutes at a dummy to get it down

[@GayLPer]

It might be better to learn the why's of the rotation before learning the how's

[@akatsuki20113]

Why does it sounds like you’re singing your guides?

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

Singing? 🤔 I don't know, I am not trying to sing them certainly, but I do put effort into the way I say things in the guides that is true 😊 Hopefully it isn't a bad thing that it sounds like that to you? 😊

[@akatsuki20113]

@@CaetsuChaijiCh no it’s not a bad thing, i actually like how you sound, it just has a kind of melodic tone to it with your inflections, maybe I’m just weird.

[@CaetsuChaijiCh]

@@akatsuki20113 That might be true 😊 I appreciate it though! It sounds very nice the way you put it!