Astrologian buffs confirmed

[Cynfael]

That's why I question the 17% as that is drawing 1 card when 3 of them increase DPS. And for that 1 card Balance I have to ask, do you know how much Trick Attack increases DPS over the course of the fight? About 2%. How about Foe's? Even less.

That is the problem with that argument. The cards are the opposite of 'underwhelming.' What exactly are you expecting? For the AST to boost overall raid damage by 10% with good RNG? That's what I meant by SE has to balance against good, bad and average RNG. It's closer to 50-50 for drawing a card that increases dps. Depending on the length of Savage fights, Spire negating Paeon is another boost.

What is this third card that increases DPS? If you mean Spear, your mileage varies drastically depending on when you get and upon whom you put it. There are too many variables involved to position Spear as any kind of significant, consistent DPS increase, even as far as "consistent" goes for AST.

Putting aside for the moment the fundamental issue of it being statistically possible (though somewhat improbable) that you fail to draw any cards that are useful for your situation, look at the possibilities that exist. Let's examine what is arguably the biggest offender, Spire, which is useless so much of the time.

In order for Spire to be useful...

...it must be drawn and applied before major TP expenditure begins.
...it must be drawn when you have players in your party who actually use significant TP.
...it must be drawn and applied before your TP user(s) are already so low on resources that they receive minimal benefit.
...your party must actually be in danger of running out of TP, which doesn't even happen in all raid situations due to breaks in the action during phase changes.

Spire cannot compete with Paeon in the big picture. Situationally it's possible, but that's a damned specific situation.