I don’t hate the new Astro changes

[Lumivyory]

Honestly to me these changes feel like they just took a soul of the class.
AST was all about those cards and I loved all of them. I'd always find a way to use different cards here and there.
Some people found certain cards to be useless well NOW they are TRULY useless because half of them are unnecessary since there are already cards that are the same, just have a different name. I don't see the point in having so many cards that do literally the same thing.
At least before it was interesting, I liked the RNG part, having to redraw or just using whatever RNG gives you and now you don't even need to look at what you got - draw a card and use it, done. This is just boring and pointless.
I'll probably switch to scolar now.

[Mimilu]

Divination seems like it's going to be annoying. =w=
You can only use it while you have 3 seals and you can only gain seals while in combat (no clue if seals stay with you when you go to a different area yet, my game crashed when I tried to teleport to Limsa... >w> ).

[Siris]

Divination seems like it's going to be annoying. =w=
You can only use it while you have 3 seals and you can only gain seals while in combat (no clue if seals stay with you when you go to a different area yet, my game crashed when I tried to teleport to Limsa... >w> ).

I think they'll need to adjust the CD on this ability as well. It's a bit too long... I've been able to use it only once in the trials/raids that I've tried.

[Seraphor]

Just think of it as your Balance + Spire fishing being averaged out.

[Cyrocco]

Just think of it as your Balance + Spire fishing being averaged out.

It seems less like it's being averaged out and more like it's just less common, because y'know, I used to be able to pull a full set of cards, and use regular Draw and all that.

[Israphel84]

I DO hate the changes
Heals are really nerfed. Looks like this is what they meant of "healing more" because of low heals.

Celestial opposition is a joke. It recovers so little HP. It's like a mini aspected helios, and will not help that much in an emergency.
I thought it was gonna be like an Assize but it isn't

Divination seems like it's going to be annoying. =w=
You can only use it while you have 3 seals and you can only gain seals while in combat (no clue if seals stay with you when you go to a different area yet, my game crashed when I tried to teleport to Limsa... >w> ).

Yes, indeed trying to get divination correctly is annoying. Specially trying to get the correct seals is If ppl were complaining for ewer and spire, this is worse. It's like I used my 3 stacks of Redraw and never got the seal I needed, so I just had to convert it into Lord or Lady
And the most annoying part is that you can only get them in battle. If you hit the "Play" button and the enemy dies, you don't get the seal >(

I think they'll need to adjust the CD on this ability as well. It's a bit too long... I've been able to use it only once in the trials/raids that I've tried.

I also vote for this. What's the use of having a short recast time for Draw / Play and getting seals pretty quick if divination is gonna need to wait?

[Dyvid]

Honestly to me these changes feel like they just took a soul of the class.
AST was all about those cards and I loved all of them. I'd always find a way to use different cards here and there.
Some people found certain cards to be useless well NOW they are TRULY useless because half of them are unnecessary since there are already cards that are the same, just have a different name. I don't see the point in having so many cards that do literally the same thing.
At least before it was interesting, I liked the RNG part, having to redraw or just using whatever RNG gives you and now you don't even need to look at what you got - draw a card and use it, done. This is just boring and pointless.
I'll probably switch to scolar now.

Honestly I would have just changed them to buff the Main Stat: STR, MND, INT, DEX, and Tenacity(because VIT only raises HP). Then leave one as a dud card for balance.

[Elamys]

I'm eating my words...these changes are quite fun, and I complained endlessly about how my job was being ruined to my friends. I would like to see some variety still beyond boosting damage, but maybe not through the cards themselves but rather through the usage of Divination. Tweaks are needed, but it's surprisingly satisfying to play. My only major problem is not being able to gain seals out of combat. Seals are cleared upon changing areas, so this shouldn't be an issue. I've had several times where I was casting a card on someone while they were beginning to pull, and because I wasn't myself in combat yet, I got no seal. qq

I do not at all mind heals being weaker. Yes, I lost some DPS time, but who cares? I played to be a healer, not a DPS! I'm actually quite pleased and hope that they can flesh out this new system some more.

I will say CO feels very meh now. Such a low potency heal with such a long cooldown. At least put the stun back on it.

[Haxaan]

I will say CO feels very meh now. Such a low potency heal with such a long cooldown. At least put the stun back on it.

They should just make CO how it was in SB. We don't need an instant cast baby medica. The Stun and Buff extension were great!

[PyurBlue]

I really dislike that the developers took away any semblance of planning or thought process behind the cards, as that was what attracted me to the job back in Heavensward. I also do not like the idea of padding a single person with cards. The issue was clearly just Balance...but instead of addressing it, they changed every card into mini, weaker Balances... I can't quite understand this decision.

I have no doubt that you're a better AST then me and most likely have a deeper understanding of the changes than I do, but I don't feel like much was lost. The more varied card effects in SB were good, but they're being random kind of spoiled planning as far as I'm concerned. Maxing the number of cards played was usually better than holding onto specific cards, and while the Balance got a lot of attention as the broken card, the Spear and the Arrow weren't all that different as far as the AST drawing them was concerned. They were just Balance but slightly different. Bole and Ewer were the more interesting cards (and Spire in the 1% of situations where TP mattered), but because of the way the game works you could never actually count on them to be available when you wanted them.

I think the cards should have kept their old attributes, except Spire obviously, and become something like passive buffs on players that the AST could activate later. Essentially instead of using Spread to store cards, you store them on different players. This would allow ASTs to build a specific combination of cards and control exactly when and how they were used.

Also, I don't feel like we're really feeding cards to one player with the new system. I think I've been dividing them pretty equally among party members in dungeons and having to target specific party members instead of defaulting to AoE spread in most situations is more engaging.