Quote Originally Posted by Side-Eye View Post
At that point, the main problem I have with the 5.x card system is: for the relatively low amount of added DPS for others, 1) how many buttons I've pressed, 2) how many times I've changed targets, and 3) how much time I've diverted away from personal DPS and healing.

That's it in a nutshell. Unless Squeenix figures out a way to reduce how much clicking and re-targeting it takes to *use* the card system, the time and energy it consumes is horribly small compared to the end benefit. And I don't see any simple way for devs to reduce all that clicking and re-targeting without at least increasing the buff durations.
You are contributing about 800-1k dps to the group with those cards and buffs when playing them properly. That's not a small amount. And considering the upcoming update to Minor Arcana, SE is clearly making efforts to streamline the system. If you want to be doing that much less damage then it's on you.

As for the "diverting time away from dps and healing." Did you forget about the cast times on Malefic, Gravity, and Benefic I? Aspected Benefic and Combust being instant? The Lightspeed cooldown giving you double weaving space on everything else.? Even the controller gives you the ability the hard target one thing then soft target your party members to heal/buff them.