The new AST cards are incredibly lacklustre and boring by the sounds of it... why fix something that wasn’t broken? If people want to fish for AoE balance, then let them. I however always preferred the AST’s who use Boles on squishy tanks, Ewers on those who need MP etc. It adds so much more fun to the game. It really was the only thing that made AST unique imo, but now that’s been stripped down massively. Taking away all that choice is pretty bad...