Quote Originally Posted by CrimsonGunner View Post
brandedblade maybe you should be ashamed at how stupid you are being right now and your lack of vision is instead,seriously comments such as these are shows how little you care about playing the game,disrespecting someone for caring about his job is seriously shameful.

AST theme is around reading fate using his cards and utilizing the stars power to alter it to his favor. u see having utility based rng mechanic as a flawed design only because you cant control it as you want but its definitely not flawed cause that is the point of AST power,utilizing what random thing(a.k.a RNG) fate throws at him and using it to make it work for him.

you gamble and shuffle through effects is exactly the concept of reading and trying to change fate, you are handed a bunch of cards now its up to you what to do with them.
you can successfully make the hand you were given work for you ,or fail and accept your fate or keep trying and change what you were given in order to make it work. that is the point of this system and if you fail to see and understand that then seriously with your comment, why do you play AST then if you don't like even its theme?
I can still argue that's what AST is still doing. You still randomly draw cards, then you manipulate them to make the most of them. You still use them set up an end goal. Instead of it being an AoE balance and settling for AoE Spear or Arrow you now try to achieve a 3 seal Divination and settle for a 2 or 1seal Divination with bad luck.The difference now is that instead of bad luck giving you useless or no utility, you just get a weaker version of the good utility. Instead of randomly getting niche utility, said utility is baked elsewhere into the toolkit or on other classes.

And even beyond the cards, a few abilities still play into the theme of predicting the future and creating a favorable outcome. Horoscope's and Earthly Star's requirements of setup and preplanning are what immediately come to mind in this regard. Even essential dignity, despite how much more reactive it is as opposed to proactive, can still be percieved as altering a bad fate at the last minute.