Sleeve Draw feels horrible now

[IllyaPrisma]

180 seconds for 1 card feels exactly like 5.0 divination did when that ability was on a 3 minute cooldown. I understand that SE wanted to nerf ASTs rDPS, but giving AST less card interaction doesn’t feel like the answer.

Rip Sleeve Draw
Rip Minor Arcana Usage

[Saefinn]

180 seconds for 1 card feels exactly like 5.0 divination did when that ability was on a 3 minute cooldown. I understand that SE wanted to nerf ASTs rDPS, but giving AST less card interaction doesn’t feel like the answer.

Rip Sleeve Draw
Rip Minor Arcana Usage

Here's a wild idea. If cards are too OP, let's give back more to SCH and WHM?

Why make 1 jobs less interesting when you can make 2 jobs slightly more interesting?

[Choya]

Totally agree. 180 sec cooldown for 1 card is just ridiculous. The ''buff'' where you will not draw the same seal as the ones you have already is just and then reducing our total cards drawn.. Gosh I am really speechless. I don't even know where to start!

[Brandedblade]

shame, it actually feels much smoother to play like this too.

[KDSilver]

I understand that SE wanted to nerf ASTs rDPS, but giving AST less card interaction doesn’t feel like the answer.

They didn't want to nerf AST rDPS.
Sleeve Draw had a lot of complain, especially from controller player because it was a heavy switching target moment and felt stressful for them.
That's their way to adress it.

Besides, with the extra MP recovery we have now, you can now drop some piety which is an indirect pDPS increase.

However, for the cooldown itself, I agree.
With 1 card only, I would have prefer it to be at 120s.

[Jirah]

im shcoked they kept it at 180 thats ludicrous! They are literally killing off Astro main draw wit every change they make

[elioaiko]

I think 120s would have been fine so it lines up with Divination but for 1 card yes it should be lower.

Sleeve Draw does feel less of a burden now though.

[Limonia]

What if they, in addition to lowering the CD to 120s, the card you use with Sleeve Draw is always as strong as a Minor Arcana card?

I love that there is a little less constant target switching now, but I also understand that this lowered AST DPS and many people played it for the rDPS.

[3NO]

Suggestion : Make sleeve draw 90s cooldown and can keep up to 3 stack if you really want to nerf AST rdps output just nerf the potentcy of each card down problem solved (and take out mp regen too if it too powerful).

[elioaiko]

Suggestion : Make sleeve draw 90s cooldown and can keep up to 3 stack if you really want to nerf AST rdps output just nerf the potentcy of each card down problem solved (and take out mp regen too if it too powerful).

Then it brings it back to the initial issue of constant tab-targetting, which prevents and turns people away from AST. Like it or not, it can be exhausting to do their 5.2 opener constantly. I raided on AST during Eden Titan era and while it feels great to get off the cards, it's pretty tricky on controller.

The switching problem exists due them getting rid of an AoE option that was Royal Road.

Perhaps they could give Draw 2 stacks instead? Adding more cards into Sleeve Draw only makes it a chore to do and SE only wants to boost their AST playrate which is much lower than SCH and WHM which is concerning to them of course.