Thoughts from a 60 AST & 60 WHM

[GideonHighmourn]

But then again, if you made the card buffs powerful enough to always be useful in 4-mans, they'd likely be far too powerful for 8-mans.

They could easily make them always useful in 4-mans without being overpowered. At the very least, combining the Spire/Ewer cards and Spear/Arrow cards would make it feel a lot less unsatisfying in 4-man content, without making it overpowered in 8-man content. Especially since the Spear on it's own is very very situational outside highly organized gameplay. Making shuffle not redraw the same card would also go a long way with this. It's incredibly frustrating to play AST in 4-man content currently, and again, it's not because the healing is sub-par.