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

[Mclyde]

You seem to misunderstand what strategy means, so here's a quoted dictionary definition for you: a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim

http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires...tratégie/74818

Art de coordonner des actions, de manœuvrer habilement pour atteindre un but

literally "Art to coordinate actions, maneuver skillfully to achieve a goal"

I guess you mix up with "organise"

[Xalvador]

If you think the AST cards are useless, you're really not playing the job properly.

The cards are weak enough at this point to be considered mostly useless. Some may have small uses, but overall throughout an entire raid encounter, the cards really won't be doing as much as the other healer's can in terms of utility.

[SuzakuCMX]

........

I'm honestly speechless that you just ignored my entire post to nitpick a definition in a language different than your native one.

[DarkerOrange]

Welcome to what an argument with an AST apologist is like they do not use logic or reason, they simply repeat the same sentence over and over and over.

[Ghishlain]

Welcome to what an argument with an AST apologist is like they do not use logic or reason, they simply repeat the same sentence over and over and over.

I can at least take solace in the fact the thread itself has remained mostly amicable, unlike other threads where it's kinda devolved into... something entirely else?

[SuzakuCMX]

So what do you think the chances of AST getting changes before 3.1 are? Since they'll be missing both weapon and body by late September.

[Ghishlain]

So what do you think the chances of AST getting changes before 3.1 are? Since they'll be missing both weapon and body by late September.

I would expect if there are any change pre-3.1 they will be minor at best with a more thorough balancing happening at the 3.1 mark.

Personally, I am hoping they'll make the changes when they drop 3.1 and see what happens and hoping for some information to drop during the 3.1 patch previews they'll be posting. Maybe we'll end up with a very long post from Yoshi-P himself in the healer forum like what happened when the WAR changes were announced back in the 2.0 era.

[Geardagas]

So what do you think the chances of AST getting changes before 3.1 are?

Before 3.1, I feel like we will only see some numbers tweaked, since numbers are easily changed in a hotfix and don't require a patch. Higher potency on heals, lower cooldown and longer duration of synastry, etc. The hopeful reworks to the card system, and to the nearly useless abilities (CO, CU, and nocturnal sect) won't be until 3.1.

Oh, and for the sake of all that is good and green in this god-forsaken universe: the most easiest and obvious fix ever, that shuffle can't redraw the same card. Seriously, why hasn't this happened yet.

[Mclyde]

Personnaly i'd like a little decrease of the draw skill and spread preserve cooldown (like 25 sec CD) and a reworking on Celestial Opposition and Collective Unconscious : for exemple it would be cool if CU stops the remaing time of the allie's buff present in the Shield)

[Ghishlain]

Oh, and for the sake of all that is good and green in this god-forsaken universe: the most easiest and obvious fix ever, that shuffle can't redraw the same card. Seriously, why hasn't this happened yet.

There could be a couple of reasons why this hasn't happened yet (or may never happen):

Without seeing the game's source code of the game, what we deem as "an easy fix" may not be so easy to fix from a programming perspective.
Without being able to read the dev's thoughts, they may deem it's not a necessary requirement. While I for one wouldn't mind the Shuffle change, I don't feel it's necessary either. The dev team may feel similar, but again, I'm not a mind reader.

Time will tell once they start announcing what they plan to balance.