The Spear?

[TatoRazzino]

This thread represents the real problem about AST: the people who play it. Players taking things as gospel and assuming some cards are only good to use in specific situations makes me think the devs are rolling their eyes to every thread they see.
The Spear is not bad and the RR effect was not nerfed. Expanded RR was transferred from The Arrow/The Spear to The Spire/The Ewer. There's a reason for that: during combat, transforming any card on an AoE may not be the best choice. The Balance, for example, loses value if you use them on DPS who are not on their burst rotations, so instead of Expanding it to a whole party on their low-dps rotation you should consider Extending it to use on a DPS that is bursting. Before they transferred the RR effect, you needed to burn The Spire/The Ewer to do that, and those two cards are very valuable to use during raids, specially for progression; now you can burn the Spear (which is less valuable than those cards) to get the most useful effect.

[TatoRazzino]

About the card itself:
The Spear is better used on jobs that have short off-GCD skills, like NIN. Since their Ninjutsu skill has a 20s cooldown, they line up with the rotation, so it's almost 100% certain that their gonna get the benefits from the card.
This card is also good on MCH, BRD, SMN and DRG, who have short cooldowns, but since most of them (if not all) have cooldowns that are over 20s long, the card may be wasted sometimes. This is why some people (including myself) find it a good Royal Road fodder, specially since the Arrow has a more direct impact in DPS and HPS values.

[RiisWolf]

This thread represents the real problem about AST: the people who play it. Players taking things as gospel and assuming some cards are only good to use in specific situations makes me think the devs are rolling their eyes to every thread they see.
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Yeah I really, REALLY hate Expanded Balance. 5% barely puts a dent in anything unless you're bursting HARD. To ensure it's effect is maximized I opt for extended Balance, 30secs of 10% extra damage is killer.