Do AST really need this Buff?

[RichardButte]

Ast is fundamentally flawed, and will break the healer balance forever until they make it a different type of healer instead of a copy of a white mage that can also use the scholar shielding tools. There's just no way for it to ever be balanced when it does the same things the other healers do and has cards.

Maybe in the expansion where we go into space and they decide to make a new tank and healer to get DPS balance right things will get fixed. But healers are gonna be in a weird place forever until things change on a fundamental level.

Hypothetically, if they can make the value of the cards beneficial enough that they're worth bringing a healer with a lower overall healing potency, it could work.

But seeing as how there's so much RNG involved, they'd either need to buff the crap out of the cards or rework them entirely.

With RNG, it would be a razor thin line between "OP" and "not worth using, ever".

[Rivxkobe]

With RNG, it would be a razor thin line between "OP" and "not worth using, ever".

Balance is "OP" and Spear is "not worth using ever". The rest are alright, but so long as Balance increases damage output its always going to be the best choice.

Also please no more AST buffs.

Why are people acting like essential dignity recast being 40 secs is new? Its always been like that with the trait. They got rid of the trait and built it into the spell itself (like they did with a lot of trait/spells).

Yeah, I dunno why people keep mentioning it.

But, like, dude its totally a buff when you are below level 28.

[Verdan]

Hypothetically, if they can make the value of the cards beneficial enough that they're worth bringing a healer with a lower overall healing potency, it could work.

But seeing as how there's so much RNG involved, they'd either need to buff the crap out of the cards or rework them entirely.

With RNG, it would be a razor thin line between "OP" and "not worth using, ever".

If each card was a spell you could cast, you could be a bad white mage with weak shields and still be an interesting healer. With them being a draw, there's just no way. They'd either be too powerful or be useless because you'd never get the power you need. The class needs to be a totally different type of healer for things to ever really fall into the right place. Maybe a HoT healer so that you'll have time to mess with cards? As it stands, it'll be doing a swing from "weak and bad" to "waaay too powerful" forever, because the design is just flawed.

Also my bad on the 40 seconds thing, I didn't play an Ast long enough to get the trait. It got less interesting for me when I could light cards on fire and most cards then became a 'nope, light it on fire'

[Yuyuka3]

As it stands, it'll be doing a swing from "weak and bad" to "waaay too powerful" forever, because the design is just flawed.

Know the worst thing about this? People explained this easy concept ever since AST was introduced, but Square is too deaf and blind to hear and see it.
We started out at the former, and now we are in the latter and sliding more and more into that because the devs don't know wtf they are even doing. And people still defend them, lol.