How are healers fairing right now?

[Billythepancake]

I understand that. And I'm not saying you or the person above you are wrong. I'm just saying while you people here haven't fished for balance... sadly and the cold hard truth to this is the streamers, paid ad peoples making vids and the players SE flies out to events and whatnot WERE fishing for balance. Raid groups in that range mostly only cared about getting that balance for their clears and meter runs. And sadly those people are the people who have voices as their opinion and words reaches accross the net from twitch to youtube to pornhub. So that's most likely why the change was made. Sadly the voices here while SE has proven they can listen to them, sometimes like now we just aren't loud or big enough. Monks have been fighting the good fight for years so I understand... I just also understand we're small compared to who they are actually listening too.

This is also not touching the fact that no matter what the cards were going to be changed anyway because of TP and defense being changed or taken out completely. 4.X series Astro can't come back due to that fact alone. Change was going to happen no matter what.

I certainly fished for balance back in the day. However, I don't see that as a problem. It was the most useful card at the time, there is no denying that. I think a better solution would have been a way to mitigate the RNG, at a cost. Say, have an ability called "force the fates" that lets you pick whatever card you want but then your next draw/redraw cycle you are guaranteed to not get that card. Maybe that or have unlimited redraws but every redraw in quick succession costs more mp.

Just spitballing here, but I certainly think there was a better solution to AST's problems besides just "make every card balance and add a frustrating seal system"