Thoughts from a 60 AST & 60 WHM

[Rewind]

The buffs on top of being able to keep the party alive are the draw. And the buffs are strong, given how often you can pump them out.

The cards give the illusion of strategy. In theory I know what card I want to draw and when I want to utalise them but there are times I draw the wrong card at the wrong time and I feel like SE hasn't given me the opportunity to actually play effectively


This is a copy and paste from my other post but...

Take Ravana extreme. Imagine you go into the fight for the first time. Whilst you’ve watched a couple of videos and read the strat, there are things you only begin to understand when experiencing the fight. For example, there are significant periods of ‘down time’ in this fight where Ravana leaves the arena. Unless you are fully prepared with the timings of these abilities you are most likely going to waste your buff times – there were plenty of times where I could have wasted an spear/arrow(royal road) + balance combo (when RNG was nice) without realising that the DPS couldn’t actually DPS for the next 40 seconds.

This makes AST significantly weaker than both WHM and SCH. Selene own her own accord has the ability to consistently roll buffs on the raid – Whilst you may lose half a speed or spell buff due to mechanics, there will be opportunity to benefit from this buff again. In comparison, there is a chance that AST may never roll balance again for the remainder of that encounter. A WHM doesn't need to buff per say but has the ability to 'save the raid' with strong heals through unpredictable damage and abilities.

What SE need to do is give more options for cards which include (but are not limited to)

• Allowing Royal Road to stack up to 3 (in combat only!)
• Allowing spread to hold up to three unique cards
• Shuffle cannot draw the same card
• (QoL) Fast discard option which reduces next draw CD by 15 seconds