Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I far more often find players fooled by the illusion of choice that was the previous system. If you weren't fishing for balance, you weren't doing what other players brought you in the party to do. Cards like the Bole and the Ewer were situational at best. Even in an optimal scenario to use them, neither were readily available to you because of the RNG. You would never use spread on an Ewer or a Bole to have for those situations because there is no guarantee they will come to pass. Royal Road; Spread; Redraw; Sleeve Draw... all a means to shave away the layers of RNG so you can AoE the Balance. If all else failed, then 99.9% of the time the card would be Minor Arcana fodder.

Tanks have their own mitigation, caster jobs all have the means to restore their own MP. Your bole, and your ewer was hardly ever needed, and in the situations where they helped, it was very likely because things weren't going right in the first place. Even then, the increase to raid DPS is still going to be more favorable as high outgoing DMG is one of the best ways to mitigate incoming DMG.

All balance. All the time. Always, or GTFO. That was the SB AST everyone loves so much.
And this is what separates the good AST from the bad. If you only saw them as situational, then you weren't using them correctly.

Bole Spread was added mitigation during group busters. Ewer spread I would agree is next to useless.
I agree the RNG aspect is a problem. But instead of addressing and fixing the problem, they left it in; RNG is still a problem.