Ast cards 6.0 rework

[Rai_Takara]

If you fished for balance all the time, you were sub par at AST.

That tells me you don't understand how to play AST well. You fished for balance unless you needed an ewer or bole in some freak recovery scenario that happened 1/10 pulls at best. Otherwise yes, you fished for balance and tried to make it AoE balance or you put one on the highest dpsing player.

I would say that it’s less Rai is sub-par at AST—he was a 99 percentile AST prior to ShB, so his play isn’t sub-par at all. The issue is that he’s considering AST only from the speedkill mentality—which, as I have said numerous times before: more people clear Ultimate than people who competitively speedkill. Balance or Bust only mattered at the cut-throat, competitive speedkill level. It didn’t matter everywhere else, and plenty of people enjoyed the old card system for what it was (including myself). This new system? The fact that there are so many new proposals for it on a near-daily basis speaks for itself.

Correct wrt mentality but I'd describe it as efficiency rather than just speeds. However I played AST in prog and PFs too as well as dungeons and so forth. You always focused on balance until you needed something else. Really depends on the group you find yourself in (you either are trying to boost their damage or keep them alive). Really I only remember playing aoe boles and st ewer when recovering from healer deaths.

While the speedrunning community is small, it is still one SE cares about, so any changes to jobs keeps that in mind.