Suggestion for rebalanced AST Cards

So AST is by far the least impacted by Stormblood than the other healers, and while their new actions are all really interesting and unique, their old card effects still suffer from a severe unbalance. This not only makes the cards feel extremely one-sided, but the shear power of The Balance is what's dominating the healer meta at the moment. By shifting some power to the other cards as well, I think AST could not only have a more interesting time handling their cards, but also make their effects less oppressive for the other healers to compete with.

New Card effect ideas:

Balance - 10% Damage increase (20% on Melee DPS)
Duration: 30s
Royal Road: Enhanced

Arrow - 10% Attack Speed increase (20% on Ranged DPS)
Duration: 30s
Royal Road: Extended

Spire - 10% Crit Rate and Crit Damage increase (20% on Caster DPS)
Duration: 30s
Royal Road: Expanded

Bole - 20% Tenacity increase (New stat for tanks, reduces damage taken and increase damage dealt)
Duration: 30s
Royal Road: Enhanced

Spear - Critical hits and Critical heals reduce all off-global cooldowns by 2 seconds per hit.
(Enhanced: 4s per hit; Expanded, 1s per hit)
Duration: 15s
Royal Road: Extended

Ewer - MP Refresh (60 Potency) and TP Refresh (60 TP per tick).
Duration: 15s
Royal Road: Expanded

All this talk on balance I wonder if they considered leaning to potency alone but it scales down as it runs out. I wonder if this would be better then a flat potency reduction.

Too much focus on the WHM problems I guess. Lol

I feel like shifting Balance and then giving other cards major buffs would hardly scale AST back from the Meta. Your argument is that Balance is so good it puts ASTs on top, and then your proposal is to make a slight decrease to Balance while making every other card damage heavy as well. Increasing party members damage/speed makes them great now, increasing party damage/crit/tank damage/and speed would make them indispensable.

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Originally Posted by MarinaShore

I feel like shifting Balance and then giving other cards major buffs would hardly scale AST back from the Meta. Your argument is that Balance is so good it puts ASTs on top, and then your proposal is to make a slight decrease to Balance while making every other card damage heavy as well. Increasing party members damage/speed makes them great now, increasing party damage/crit/tank damage/and speed would make them indispensable.

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Well generally, ASTs do everything they possibly can to pull Balances, and if not, at least Arrows. Currently, you're main goal is to spread a 10% damage buff to all party members as often as possible, as expanded cuts the 20% of Balance in half.

The idea here is that you have damage cards that help you get it a little more frequently, but that you want to focus on one member of your team rather than just smacking it on everyone. Even if you do, you're at max getting 10% of the buff to 4 party members, probably less than that. Others will only get 5% again. So there is a bit of power that gets pulled out of Balance, but puts it on an even playing field with Arrow.

As for Tenacity, we really don't know what it does, but it's been compared to Determination. The amount of damage gained by that for tanks will be enough to help them get more agro, but probably won't compare to Balance, Arrow, or Spire. Its ultimately speculation though, since we don't know enough about tenacity yet so that idea's subject to change.