Astrologian Cards Can't Be a Coin Flip: A petition

[Iscah]

I'm honestly very surprised more people aren't talking about this.

As much as I'm sad about how the gameplay will be effected, my largest concern is that the class identity and immersion is gone. We're literally going to be playing Ishgard Astrology with only The Balance card. The decision for SE to make new mechanics align exactly with the description of the antagonist branch of Astrology from the story..... It baffles me. I can't understand how that idea ever got the green light without anyone pointing it out.

I don't really care how they fix Astrologian, but, the way things are going, we're going to be doing the Astro quests helping Laveva spread Sharlayan astrology while hoping she doesn't notice every card we draw is The Fury. We're gonna be called a Heretic Sharlayan when we're literally only using The Balance, just like Ishgard Astrology.

No, that's not how the lore works.

The effects of the cards have been rewritten. As the story will now exist, the Balance was never the only card to buff your attack. It will have always been the case that all card readings will improve the damage output of their target, but work best if they align in some special cosmic way.

I also can't picture how changing the function of the cards aligns with Sevestre's intentions to keep the (now rewritten) discipline of astromancy to the world. We're still spreading those teachings, but the teachings have changed.

The "spells other than Balance" have not been locked away. They never existed.

[WaterShield]

No, that's not how the lore works.

The effects of the cards have been rewritten. As the story will now exist, the Balance was never the only card to buff your attack. It will have always been the case that all card readings will improve the damage output of their target, but work best if they align in some special cosmic way.

I also can't picture how changing the function of the cards aligns with Sevestre's intentions to keep the (now rewritten) discipline of astromancy to the world. We're still spreading those teachings, but the teachings have changed.

The "spells other than Balance" have not been locked away. They never existed.

This is why everyone is upset. The thing they liked will now be Thanos snapped out of existence. If you liked it you're SOL because you will not be able to access it anymore. It will cease to exist.

[Iscah]

This is why everyone is upset. The thing they liked will now be Thanos snapped out of existence. If you liked it you're SOL because you will not be able to access it anymore. It will cease to exist.

From a gameplay perspective, yes. But from a lore perspective... well, of course they're going to have to rewrite the small amount of lines that discussed the exact effect of the cards. But I can't see it having much impact on the story, or the story-driven identity of the job.

And we are certainly not going through the story "drawing nothing but Balance cards".