Quote Originally Posted by MitsukiKimura View Post
Better yet just change balance to a Determination % buff
Balance would be 10% Determination buff
Bole 10% defense
Spear 10% crit buff
Spire 10% Direct hit buff
Arrow 10% faster attack/spell speed
Ewer card can be a HoT regen instead of an MP regen
Each time you draw a card you earn 300mp
This allows each card to offer something, allowing MP gain through its main gimmick and changing the balance card.
Same issue as the previous system, except, I'm pretty sure 10% Crit is the best damage buff so it would just be fish Spear.

Once again we're back to "x card or bust", precisely what we fixed with ShB and what we can't have any longer.

Quote Originally Posted by MitsukiKimura View Post
Or maybe you're just so negative about the subject or any ideas towards it. Us healers or those who "Actually" play them don't feel happy with this current card system. I don't know why you come to these threads in the first place.
I played AST for 4 years and the cards were just as monotonous then as they are now. 9/10 you played balance if you were an AST worth your salt, and the 1/10 you reluctantly played spear. Once in a blue moon you might have to recover and then by chance you draw the card you want and you maybe save a run or help recover, but this was an exception, not the norm. The truth of the matter is, the rarely, if ever, mattered in the run when you wanted to save it. That came with being a good healer that could triage well and keep the party going.

I messed around with AST this expansion a bit and aside from sleeve draw shenanigans, it seems to have a good foundation, but it could use some work. Namely the seals need to be expanded upon as they are very barebones atm, but I believe SE plans to do this as it's the most obvious place to expand on the job. It's sad we lost the time aspect of our job but that I can see why they decided to remove it and can agree with it.

I'm curious to see if they do anything this patch and if they don't, it would just cement this iteration of AST till next expansion when they have to make that decision again.