Quote Originally Posted by Kummies View Post
I mean, some people love the old cards but personally I didn't find them interesting. It was just a bunch of unwanted clutter. The most common thing to do with the old card system was fish for a aoe balance. Like it or not but people like to do more damage. I never heard a tank say "sweet bole on that tank buster it saved me" or "Wow that aoe bole saved us from that raid-wide dmg". People parse, people like damage, people want to do more damage. With the new card system I can give everyone the dmg they want while also increasing that damage again with divination. I don't have to stress about rng never giving me and balance and having to settle for something lesser like aoe spear.

Just to recap on old cards
Ewer - Gave mana regen (Never used, Lucid Dreaming and mana pots are cool)
Bole - Damage Reduction (Cute, but tanks have CD's )
Spear - Increase Crit hit rate (Not bad but one-up'd by balance)
Arrow - Increase attack speed (Other then giving it to BLM with 150% potency, poop)
Spire - TP regen (.. lol )
Balnce - Damage Increase (everyone wants it)

Again, it all comes down to personal preference but for me this is funnier and less of a headache to deal with in savages and TEA. I just personally like not having to wait 5 mins between pulls fishing for that AOE balance for openers.
How would you feel about a system closer to cards in FFXI? I get the problem where some cards are more situational and it's by chance you've got them when they are useful, to me I boiled down to The Arrow or The Balance and how I Royal Roaded.

In the version of the system I'm referring you choose which buff you use instead and the RNG chooses how effective it is based on principles similar to the game of black jack (pull another card to try and better you outcome but risk busting it).

I think people liked the element of choice and RNG rolled into one tactfully playing their cards based on their choices. But it was not without its problems. To me the FFX COR version addresses all these. But I wonder if its something people who have a longer history with AST than I do would find that more interesting