Yoshi-P's Interview with Famitsu includes a few comments about AST

[LycorisSelunis]

Being able to freely pick your cards would make this job truly unique and much more interesting. Of course we'd need cards that actually help us healing,.

Unless we can pick cards, healing should NEVER be tied to them. Having buffs on rng is one thing, having your ability to keep someone from dying is another.

Never make healing any moe rng than just having crits. Ever. I know we have some wow players around....rng spreading renewing mist anyone? How did having uplift tied to an rng feel? Pretty crummy right?! Add in this game has next to no smart heals (correct me if wrong but fairy's embrace is it, yeah?) and rng healing is simply unacceptable. In wow you had a number of smartheals to pick up slack/catch someone missed in aoe (or make healing very very lazy).

[YuiSasaki]

Unless we can pick cards, healing should NEVER be tied to them. Having buffs on rng is one thing, having your ability to keep someone from dying is another.

Never make healing any moe rng than just having crits. Ever. I know we have some wow players around....rng spreading renewing mist anyone? How did having uplift tied to an rng feel? Pretty crummy right?! Add in this game has next to no smart heals (correct me if wrong but fairy's embrace is it, yeah?) and rng healing is simply unacceptable. In wow you had a number of smartheals to pick up slack/catch someone missed in aoe (or make healing very very lazy).

Tbh, I highly doubt that fairy heals via smart heals, it's rather a come first serve first mentality. Plus smart heals are by far the worst thing blizzard could implement... "ZOMFG HEALS NEEDING TOO MUCH TIME TO DECIDE ON WHICH TARGET TO THROW THEM HEALS" "i got it lets take this out and let the mechanic decide" "YEA EVERYONE GUNNA LIKE MUCH"..sure on some casts it is nice (like Well of Light)....but I'm getting way too off-topic..

To summarize, yes i know what you are talking about, but i wonder why one would need cards that help "us" healing? Cards were meant to be buffs, so the only thing I could think of would be a flat percentage to healing via a card buff (play balance on yourself get 5% benefic heal and see dem dds cry xD)

[LycorisSelunis]

To summarize, yes i know what you are talking about, but i wonder why one would need cards that help "us" healing? Cards were meant to be buffs, so the only thing I could think of would be a flat percentage to healing via a card buff (play balance on yourself get 5% benefic heal and see dem dds cry xD)

I had thought this at one point- make balance give healers more healing and make bole increase healing received, but I worry that would make those too desirable compared to other cards (balance more than it already was). Personally I was hoping they would tack an aoe heal on CO (our assize/indom) and have diurnal increase healing received and noct reduce damage taken, or something like that.

As for lightspring, that and totems were what made the most sense as a 'smartheal', a deployable that ticked away, or did nothing if no one was THAT badly hurt. One or two of those is great. All your aoe heals? Not as great, haha. Though now that I think of it, I wonder if aoe healing being 'raid' targeted and not 'party' targeted has anything to do with that. This game doesn't have a lot of 24m content though....

[Assirra]

Unless we can pick cards, healing should NEVER be tied to them. Having buffs on rng is one thing, having your ability to keep someone from dying is another.

Never make healing any moe rng than just having crits. Ever. I know we have some wow players around....rng spreading renewing mist anyone? How did having uplift tied to an rng feel? Pretty crummy right?! Add in this game has next to no smart heals (correct me if wrong but fairy's embrace is it, yeah?) and rng healing is simply unacceptable. In wow you had a number of smartheals to pick up slack/catch someone missed in aoe (or make healing very very lazy).

The problem is they basically worked themselves in a corner and i really don't see how this class ever got passed the writing board tbh.
They needed a new healer that worked together with both current healers so they created the sect system. However that job was also not supposed to be as good in their respective specialty so they nerfed the output.
Then for some godforsaken reason instead of making a system around the weaker heals they decided to go with lolrng random buffs that barely do anything.
The card system should be part of our healing, but having an unreliable healer is just crap.
It's like 2 teams designed this job and just mashed ideas together and called it quits.

To summarize, yes i know what you are talking about, but i wonder why one would need cards that help "us" healing? Cards were meant to be buffs, so the only thing I could think of would be a flat percentage to healing via a card buff (play balance on yourself get 5% benefic heal and see dem dds cry xD)

Because that is supposed to be our "thing"? We are a healer first of all and should be designed so.
What are we besides the card system? A underdeveloped whm/sch.
We are currently a buffer class in a game that has no place for it.

[SuzakuCMX]

Unless we can pick cards, healing should NEVER be tied to them. Having buffs on rng is one thing, having your ability to keep someone from dying is another.

I disagree. Keeping our healing the same as it is now but making one card buff our healing? Trash. Increasing our healing by 5% for 20s everytime we use Draw? Very nice.

[ValkyrieL]

I don't. Play ast. But my understanding is the cards are for buff....what if there was another draw option..."balance draw" that share CD with draw....this new draw will increase healing to match sch/whm ...u can spam that to stay on par with others healers...however it will also cancelled all active card buffs.

[RazeLandale]

Being able to freely pick your cards would make this job truly unique and much more interesting.

No way, that takes away the whole gimmick and makes it less unique. You're using cards. And, hey, maybe you're cheating a little with a quick shuffle or a card stuffed up your sleeve. But if you just pick at will that totally kills it.

I don't need to pick my cards. I just need them all to be useful. In all circumstances.

[LycorisSelunis]

I disagree. Keeping our healing the same as it is now but making one card buff our healing? Trash. Increasing our healing by 5% for 20s everytime we use Draw? Very nice.

That is making it tied to the draw action and thus that bit isn't rnged, so I can agree to this point :3

Personally I thought that giving 2% mp back whenever we used draw would have been nice but a small duration healing buff sounds grand. I wonder if this would lead to people constantly drawing to have a buff up a lot (even just throwing away cards they don't want just to have a buff) or if they would sit on 'draw' for when burst was needed and not have as many cards going out. I am always fascinated by the differences in mentality amongst healers for that sort of thing.

[Dyvid]

Well having one card that increase healing potency doesn't mean you have to use it on yourself. Full parties have two healers and cards can buff your partners heals too.

[Rewind]

No way, that takes away the whole gimmick and makes it less unique. You're using cards. And, hey, maybe you're cheating a little with a quick shuffle or a card stuffed up your sleeve. But if you just pick at will that totally kills it.

I don't need to pick my cards. I just need them all to be useful. In all circumstances.

I disagree - I feel like using cards on demand is better than the current way it is setup.

This way you can be strategic and adapt to different stages of the fight and select an appropriate card (some sort of shared CD system) - for example on progression you might want to be using bole more often because you just want to push past all mechanics until you see the entirity of a fight (hitting enrage). After than you may want to focus on DPS cards (balance/arrow) or be a reliable alternative to having a BRD/MCH (Ability to restore MP/TP). in raid for another 'powerhouse' DPS or just due to the fact that you're having bad luck finding a BRD/MCH

Instead the draw function could be changed to roll for the buffs like;

• Potency - Increases potency by 50%
• Duration - Increases duration by 15 seconds
• Extend - Spread action card to players within 15 yrds
• Reduce - Reduce the CD of played action card by 10 seconds
• Aura - Effect emits from player (10 yrd radius)

Royal Road instead, allows plays to gamble for improved buffs.
This includes;

• Potency - Increases potency by an additional 100% (total 150% potency)
• Duration - Increases duration by an additional 30 seconds (total 45 seconds)
• Extend - No yrd restriction (covers entirity of room)
• Reduce - Reduce the CD of played action card by an additional 20 seconds (total 30 seconds)
• Aura - Effect emits from player (25 yrd radius)
• Fumble - You lose the card