To the Astros out there...

[KisaiTenshi]

You got a new action "Undraw" to drop unwanted cards, check your skill list.

On topic, I too wish there was an option to switchback to the old buff icon view, I don't like the new job gauges, on no class, not just Ast.

On every job, I've moved the job gauge to the left or the right of the hotbar, and set them to 60% size. With AST I have it on the left beside the hotbar actions for the cards. I find I'm rarely looking at these gauges anyway.

[Kling-Klang]

I really dislike it aswell. Its very unnecessary and you lose too much information with it. Please let us turn it off, its useless.

[Spiroglyph]

I don't "dislike" the new gauge, but I DO think it's rather... space wasting and a tad unnecessary. I would suggest a toggle option - but some additional changes would have to be made, as the old mode allows for discarding saved and burnt cards whereas the new gauge does not.

It is kind newbie-friendly though, I guess. For a new player just starting out with AST it could get confusing to try and memorize all the possible Royal Road bonuses, and having it separate from your timed buffs is added visibility, which I guess might help them to like, not forget that cards are a core mechanic of AST and not just something to sit quietly in their buff bar.

I do miss the ability to discard saved or burnt cards, though... as a principle I dislike discarding drawn cards, so usually if I have a spire burnt and I draw, say, an ewer (while shuffle is on cooldown and I have something equally useless when spreaded, like an arrow), my only option is to put the card back and wait another 20 seconds to draw again, or to just go "screw it" and use it anyway, and get hardcore judged by anyone who is even remotely paying attention.

So... I'd like to either be able to discard burnt and saved cards, or, if this isn't possible, to have the "discard" skill shorten the cooldown on draw by a couple of seconds.

... But in doing this it would just improve even more the utility an AST can bring to a party, which is really, really good at this point, and would mess further with the already shaky healer balance.
/sigh

[Spiroglyph]

On every job, I've moved the job gauge to the left or the right of the hotbar, and set them to 60% size. With AST I have it on the left beside the hotbar actions for the cards. I find I'm rarely looking at these gauges anyway.

I would like to thank the lord for the ability to resize UI elements. I think if I had to keep looking at my ridiculous aetherflow gauge at its initial size for too long my already diminishing enthusiasm for playing this job would just die out lmao

[Averax]

I miss them too, i can never tell what other ASTs are holding, and it's a huge guessing game.

Unless they did this to discourage AST stacking, i don't know why they had to ditch the buff icon.

[AsahinaMyLove]

ya... the Icons are WAY Better noticable on your char + status and 100x better than that stupid gauge system <-< I dont even know what card I just drew -.- It rather makes me stop using cards at all!

[Mimilu]

I like the new gauge but I agree that we need to: A) Be able to see what cards another AST in the party has and B) Need to be able to take off Royal Road and Spread cards (Minor Arcana isn't bad because it only has a 5 second cooldown).