Question from a new player - can AST change back to what it was before ?

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Originally Posted by ErryK

You still have tanks and you still have healers to use those cards on... and if they're not DPSing well that's another issue entirely.


This seems like a non-issue, they just turned the cards into a damage buff which is always good, especially if you had people dying and you're trying to beat the enrage.



What? All cards are useable in any party setup...

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Sure I can throw it on the tank... draw the next card throw it on the tank... draw the next card throw it on the tank... (I have gone nearly entire dungeons pulling almost exclusively melee cards even with redraws) and not really feel the difference in clear speed because the damage output of the tank does not compare to a DPS that knows their job. Throwing a buff on the healers is likewise meh, unless they happen to be a WHM. Course if you are doing dungeons then you wont ever be buffing yourself because you spend more time trying to plug up the ever growing hole in the dam flooding your tanks health down the drain.

And frankly with the old system every card was always good for one purpose or another. The current system is so weak and pointless I can see PFs that wont accept ASTs because if you want to beat that enrage despite people going down then you are better off going 2x WHM for their sheer DPS output which eclipses AST being maximized which requires people not dying at all to get as much rDPS.

Old system had all cards usable regardless of party setup. New system means matchmaker can make half of your cards pointless because the buff is too weak or the target is just not that good a choice.

Just change the cards to do what they used to do, but change spire to give a direct hit buff, or reduce the targets cooldowns or something. Nerf balance a little bit maybe.

Keep literally all of the rest of the new changes for all I care, and I'd like it a lot more.

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

Sure I can throw it on the tank... draw the next card throw it on the tank... draw the next card throw it on the tank... (I have gone nearly entire dungeons pulling almost exclusively melee cards even with redraws) and not really feel the difference in clear speed because the damage output of the tank does not compare to a DPS that knows their job.

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I used to go entire runs drawing only Spires and Ewers. At least that tank is getting a buff.
And a decent tank should be doing about 70% of the damage of a DPS, so it's not pointless.

i would revert it to old card system but no damage buffs
just support buffs

healing increase,defense buff etc etc Id rather the cards be more support than just fish for the offense option or what we have now