Who else is worried about SE and Ast?

[YusiKha]

Yes, because that's essentially what it exists to do but instead you have needless extra steps. Akin to prior MA where you had to turn the card into Lord/Lady to then play it.

You may as well remove the base cards and draw only Lords and Ladies. We want the classes more engaging to play, you realise?

That's supposedly what people don't want? Standardization in general? They want the RNG utility back? Their current cards are fine as is. You always are guaranteed damage and this system has more weight and thought than the old one in terms of maximizing output.

The current cards are fine, in the sense that they are functional.
The weight and thought has been moved from 'quick decision-making' to 'memorise the burst phases of every class in the game, adjusting for downtime or mistakes' (or just yolo cards onto the highest dps melee/ranged).

You weren't guaranteed damage with the previous system, but you're also not guaranteed to get a 3 seal divination. Randomness is still part of the class, and when I join a normal raid with 4 ranged/caster, I roll my eyes and prepare for half of my cards to immediately become ShB Boles.

I mean I said it was unpopular. The general playerbase always wants flashy and unique things whereas the more competitive side understand that there needs to be compromise for balance.

I get what you're saying - but you shouldn't take a stanley knife to fun's gut for the sake of implementing a just-as-annoying-let-me-draw-a-bloody-ranged-card coin flip.

This should matter to the general playerbase because once the competitive side says a job is bad, it just gets discriminated against in PFs and trickles down. There's a reason SE, who cares about their general playerbase, is finally heavily balancing jobs to make sure people all jobs are good.
And it's fine if there are more people playing non-AST healers. That's okay. Like I said, not all jobs need to be played equally. There's nothing wrong with that.

Imean... Something's pretty wrong when the competitively best healer is in less than 20% of parses, especially when you're saying it should be the most popular for that reason.