Do you notice the effects of your cards?

[GideonHighmourn]

I definitely notice, especially when I toss an Enhanced Balance on the DPS before the pull and they end up with agro shortly thereafter. Tanks never quite expect it.

[Muahbec]

putting a arrow with buffed potency on tank, extending it as long as i can
tank goes crazy in ts XD
yep the cards can be quite amazing (as long as you actually pull useable ones that is)

i still have no clue what i should do with spear though, always gets RR'ed or shuffled when i get it

Spear is the most complicated card to use.
If you draw it and you're about to use LA throw spear on yourself and then use LA, its CD will be reduced to 96s i guess, i don't remember.......... yeah, its not THAT useful but...it helps.
The thing about spear is, it does not work on ongoing CDs and that in my opinion should be changed.

[RichardButte]

I'd still like to see the math done out regarding whether or not SCH DPS still outdoes the average AST benefit.

My guess is that it does, but I'm not even sure how to go about really testing it...

There are just so many times when I draw garbage for cards that wind up adding nothing to overall DPS.

[Drtoxicmedica]

Pre blood weapon adjustment for drk I would cry everytime I would get the arrow while off tanking. Especially when I saw it was extended on only me :'(

[File2ish]

When placing the buffs, yeah, usually. Bigger numbers flying on screen, easier to heal the tank, more numbers on screen, bars filling up slightly.

When getting the buff? Yup. GL3 plus Balance or Arrow is always lovely to get.

The only one I never notice is Spear. It's a great card, quicker CDs for not GCD abilities is awesome, but my luck has been I get it after I already used Luminferous Aether. So it's either get the next card extended or use it on a tank/dps. I usually don't pay attention to if they have been using their CDs so I usually just assume they burned them already and get extended...

[Xenos74]

I'd still like to see the math done out regarding whether or not SCH DPS still outdoes the average AST benefit.

My guess is that it does, but I'm not even sure how to go about really testing it...

There are just so many times when I draw garbage for cards that wind up adding nothing to overall DPS.

The nice thing about this is that 8man content, the pt would greatly benefit from an AST+SCH combo. You keep the healer dps and the entire pt gets buffs from both healers.

As for 4 man content, I feel my contribution is greater if I go sch instead of ast simply because sch has good aoe dmg and ast only has gravity (on the assumption it's post-50 cap content)

[nexas506]

Short answer yes.
long answer, i was doing A1 the other day. I wasn't really paying attention and kept using the attack buff cards on the same dragoon. Anyway, oppressor was at 50% while oppressor 0.5 was at 30 something.

[deos]

Spear is the most complicated card to use.
If you draw it and you're about to use LA throw spear on yourself and then use LA, its CD will be reduced to 96s i guess, i don't remember.......... yeah, its not THAT useful but...it helps.

or before using any other NGC like lightspeed or synastry, sure
but its not something that i can throw in the group and watch the results

btw, ever put a buffed arrow on a BLM with ley lines enabled? 30% attackspeed bonus for a class with high dmg and self-sustainability is quite crazy