I myself am pretty much new to the game. I dabbled in it in the past, but never got past ARR due to....well the pretty long and tedious MSQ for it. With the launch of Shadowbringers and the praise it was receiving I decided to push through this time and level.

As it currently stands I am in Stormblood content (LOVED HW) and, I have primarily been maining Astrologian...along with Scholar depending on my mood.

I do not know much about how Astrologian plays as compared to before. Overall, I love the animations of the job and I enjoy its pace. Lore wise, I have to agree for the cards and their uses. I thought there would be more....purpose for each card compared to the Job quests descriptions.

With that being said, I understand everyone's frustration about how AST is in its current form. I know what its like to have class identities gutted and changed every expansion (former WoW player here). I also understand the needs for the balancing from the dev team.

I guess ignorance is bliss cause I do enjoy how the job plays right now. Would I be upset if they changed the way the cards work and bring back the original design or something similar. I would say no. I love playing a buffing type healer over a straight up healer. So if they brought that system back to make it interesting or change it up. I would be down.