About Shuffle,Spread,Royal Road and Draw.

[Muahbec]

Lowering the recast time would not be OP. If SE knew how to balance stuff...

Of course if timers were reduced Bole Balance and Arrow durations would obviously be reduced as well.
If we want to make AST different than WHM and SCH, we should buff their only unique aspect and not their "copies"

Thats why i said that i wasn't expecting a buff on their potencies but a buff on their only unique aspect (cards)
In my opinion what SE should have done:
Not buffing their potencies (380>400 etc...) but changing some of their cooldowns, or maybe reworking some of their cooldowns AND reducing their card skills CDs.
With better CDs to face emergencies (Turning synastry into a toggle like many MANY players have suggested, adding the HP recovery through spells buff to Lightspeed instead of synastry and making it reduce GCD by 1s, add a healing potency or a barrier -depending on your sect- to CO so it would be ASTs version of Assize/Indomitability, etc) and card skills on lower recast timers they would be able to heal and do what their were meant to do > Buff the party enough so they wouldn't need to toggle CS and DPS...

WHM would still have higher potencies (many players are complaining about AST potencies being the same as WHM with the addition of buffs, throwing the only thing that made WHM unique away- their raw healing power, and their amazing high potencies- and after thinking for some time, i'm starting to agree with them...)

The hybrid idea was horrible but the card idea was AWESOME, what AST need is a buff on their cards so their only uniqueness can shine, and not a buff on their potencies only to turn them into a complete copy of WHM with buffs attached to it.
SE messed it up

Not trying to be rude btw, is just that, this whole hybrid idea make my nerves explode. -________-

[BlueMageQuina]

Snip...

You're not being rude. I was only commenting on the card buffs, and not the healing buffs since those already happened and probably won't be debuffed back to the original potencies.

So, let me clarify: as it currently stands now, AST can heal as well as WHM in Diurnal and isn't far off from SCH in Nocturnal. Changes to both the cards' RNG setup and cooldown durations can potentially allow for optimal set ups more frequently than imagined which would in such a case make AST more desirable than the other healing jobs since they heal just as well and can buff, or they may inadvertently render other jobs obsolete. I'm not saying it will happen with card buff changes, it's just a potential result. This possibility is exactly why they took so long to buff AST and why they said what they said in their live letters, something along the lines of "Pushing the AST just a little too much may overpower it."

I agree that card buffs and healing cooldowns is what they should have changed. I just question to what extent they should be changed now, since they changed healing potencies instead.

[Muahbec]

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Yeah, i understand your point and i totally agree with you.
SE had the chance to truly fix AST and make it unique but messed it up ... sadly :/

[Zaj_Quilos]

Spread cooldown should be reduced considerably and they should make it so you don't lose the card in there when you die.