AST buffs in 3.4 Changes to Barries and Cards.

[Teraluna]

Let's not forget we have 4 buttons dedicated to this meh mechanic while other jobs got 4 real abilities. When you try to anything synced to level 50 as AST, it honestly feels like you forgot to equip your jobstone. You just have so few abilities.

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It's padding in an attempt to distract from the lack of real utilities. All that just for a hit and miss rng bonus, whilst as you say other classes get real skills.

If they took away the rng and let players equip the card bonuses on their hotbars (with a common cool down) - then you'd just see a couple slotted. But they won't as this would remove the padding, making players more aware of the thin skills list.

So this slot filling gimmick stays put, suggesting somehow that playing an rng mini-game in the middle of an often hectic raid group is a good thing to do.