What do you want in your AST?

[Seraphor]

If the card system is here to stay, then I honestly think the seal system needs to go. It is RNG for RNG's sake. There is nothing rewarding about having your entire opener relegated to whether or not you get screwed over by the cards. Especially when you have to give yourself carpal tunnel just to attempt to get a 6% DPS increase, while other classes can get the same thing 100x easier. I could not imagine playing current AST optimally on a controller,it's enough of a nightmare on keyboard and mouse.

Woah what?
There's less RNG punishment than the old system.
The difference in damage output between Balance and Arrow, was way bigger than the difference between a full 6% Divination and a 'failed' 4% Divination. If you even managed to get a Balance/Spear/Arrow in your first two cards anyway...

[Hatstand]

Woah what?
There's less RNG punishment than the old system.
The difference in damage output between Balance and Arrow, was way bigger than the difference between a full 6% Divination and a 'failed' 4% Divination. If you even managed to get a Balance/Spear/Arrow in your first two cards anyway...

I’d be fine with the seals going, too, albeit for a different reason. I don’t like randomness for the sake of randomness. I like randomness for the sake of forcing decisions. When you got, say, an Ewer in the old system you had to think about whether anyone needed mana, and if they did what your royal road setup was and whether it was worth upsetting that to use an Ewer. If you weren’t going to use it, did you need it for royal road or would you be better served with a redraw, or with a minor arcana?

By contrast, when you get a seal, you only need to check whether you’ve got it and if you have you minor arcana it. It’s not exactly involved.

I would like it a lot if they introduced more thought into how you responded to the randomness of the cards, but I don’t think the randomness there is currently adds much.