Quote Originally Posted by Cyrocco View Post
I hope the other ASTs are happy now, they screamed for buffs so hard they got us a nerf.
The ability to discard Spreads and Royal Roads was something we already had before and was removed only due to oversight: when they changed card effects from status effects over into the new gauge.
It's not a buff to be able to even further micro-manage your cards; that's just playing the job the way it's supposed to be played, and not all ASTs are going to throw away everything just to AOE Balance every chance they get. The ASTs that do aren't playing the job correctly. Royal Road and Spread will still have their applicable cooldowns, just like they did before. Discard a bad Spread? Well, you still have to wait 30 seconds to actually hold another card.
People are still going to want Balance more than anything else. That's not going to change.