5.0 AST: cards vs. personal dps

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Originally Posted by BahamutxD

It is hard to do with mouse+kb, imagine a controller user or just a player that is not as fast as experienced ones. It gets worse once you get 3 seals because after that you have to turn every card into minor arcana, adding an extra button press. This is a bad planned design from SE, "Play" shouldn't even exist and cards should go directly to Draw.

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You can try making a mouse-over macro for Play and see if that helps with KB+M. You can hover over the player's name in your party list with your cursor and deploy the card, and you shouldn't have too many issues with it queuing up.

I play on controller and got used to targeting members in the past for single-target cards because controllers can soft target a party member (using the D-pad to manually scroll through the party list during a cast and highlighting the desired party member without pressing X to hard target them), deploy the card, and then go back to attacking the boss. After practice, it's not that clunky to do at all, in my opinion.

That said, I'm still not a fan of the cards or the seals. They're living up to the prior expectations I already had of boring gameplay with very little decision-making involved, and I usually have my seals for my next Divination well before the buff is even close to being off CD (even without Sleeve Draw in sub-70 stuff).

Play for me is a godsend.
I was using said Mousover Macros before 5.0 and it always sucked that I either had to hover over a partymember or include self in the macro (what i did) to just draw a card.
Then when I was unlucky, I applied the card to myself instead of the partymember i mo'd. So yeah, I would be very sad to lose the Play Skill.