Has Gauges helped you a lot?

[dinnertime]

I don't feel like it's a hindrance or anything. For me it feels the same as it used to be, instead it's larger visuals instead of tiny icons with numbers on most of them.
In some jobs like AST it definitely helps.
The new jobs were obviously made with the gauges in mind.

[Cidel]

I don't feel like it's a hindrance or anything. For me it feels the same as it used to be, instead it's larger visuals instead of tiny icons with numbers on most of them.
In some jobs like AST it definitely helps.

I respectfully disagree. While I adapted quickly to the separate card UI on AST, that's largely in part to just training myself to look slightly off to the side of the target's HP bar (where I moved it) as opposed to the top of my screen with the rest of my buffs.

The custom gauge on AST offers nothing new outside of a place to dump the minor arcana card indicator (which could have been done without a custom gauge anyway) and some pretty little border around your held cards. It factually took away visibility of AST's held, spread and Royal Road from others (the same way Aetherflow stacks are now some big secret). It really only comes off as "help" to me if the goal was to let mistakes on card/RR/spread management (if there's even any at all) and unlucky shuffles go unnoticed.

I do recall a (or "the") reason was the devs being more concerned with "buff bloat," but I personally never thought to myself: "Damn, I have too many buffs to know what's going on."

[JunseiKei]

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