Ast's shuffle needs a revamp.

[Eisenhower]

I have noticed most of the time I used shuffle, I draw the same card so their odds may need some adjusting or please let it be so that we can't draw the discarded card.

Same. It honestly seems to be approximately 60-65% of the time, I draw the same card. It's sure as hell not 16.6% of the time as you would imagine it would be as there are 6 cards.

That's because your sample size is too small and/or because you're a human. When N → ∞, the draw/re-draw probabilities for a given card will (most likely) be 1/6. But a truly random sequence of numbers (or in this case, cards) will not appear so to human perception since we're way better at detecting patters (even when there are none) as a survival trait. This is why Apple changed how their devices shuffle songs and why some games use pseduo-random distributions to determine probability-based effects – to counteract the feeling of patterns in actual random distributions.

[Lastelli]

I've been thinking about this and I've come to the conclusion that they don't know how to do it. They should rewrite the code to take into account conditional probabilities, while it's much easier to just determine which card will be drawn with a 1/6 chance. Ofc this is only my guess, I might be very wrong. But basically yes, if RNG isn't on your side then the buffs an AST might provide, that are already quite weak as mathematically proved, become basically useless and AST is just a WHM with way less tools and a ridiculous personal dps. I don't know, they should probably just make shufle a 10 seconds CD skill, so you can keep using it if the card you draw is useless in a particular situation. With bad luck you might still draw only spires and spears, but at least the probability of drawing something good will be higher. If I could have it my way, I'd just make Shuffle into a 1 second CD ability and I bet cards wouldn't be too powerful anyway. After all, perfect luck (only drawing spires/ewers and balance) implies a raid dps increase of around 2%, even having full control over cards wouldn't be a big deal.

[mcgoo94]

I dont think it needs a revamp or else it would be too op. The cards are rng....deal with it.

[Vlady]

How about no.

[Alahra]

This is why Apple changed how their devices shuffle songs

They did? I didn't know that.

[Sebazy]

Personally I think a better change would be to completely remove the cooldown from shuffle BUT also put it on the GCD at the same time.

It'd allow an AST to brute force stronger card combos during encounter 'downtime' as an alternative to the CS>Dot dance routine that is standard faire across all three healing jobs at the end game. However the fact that GCDS are themselves a valuable and oft scare resource at times would prevent it from being overpowered.

[Eisenhower]

They did? I didn't know that.

When the first iPod (or maybe it was iPod shuffe) was released, customers complained that the device sometimes played songs from the same album or artist in sequence. For a true random shuffle, there are times where this will happen since there's nothing stopping the dice from rolling X and then X+1. It might be unlikely, but it happens. Despite the Apple engineers arguing that the shuffle was random, complaints led to an algorithm that made certain checks so that songs can't appear in certain "patterns".

[PiedPiper]

An interesting idea I've seen on the forums is let's us build a deck. We pick the draw order and it cycles around over and over. Shuffle would either just draw the next card or draw a random card and restart the cycle from there.

Imo this would be very strategically interesting without really increasing the power of the class since it would mean one and only one balance per 3 minutes.