Everything wrong with 5.3 AST sleeve draw [Translated JP duplicate thread]

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If you are actually going to tell me that you didn't gcd heal back then, then I don't believe you even played AST when it came out and have nothing else to add to this thread because you don't understand where I'm coming from and never had this experience.

I wasn't going to go this far, but if you're going to talk like this you leave me no choice. Of course I played the job back then (at 300 ping, so I know all about clipping too), and I am absolutely sure I know far better than you about how 4.x worked. That's R2 personal & speed and R1 speed at 300 ping, and Beere that played the same way with better ping was R1 for pretty much every fight. No, in most fights you DIDN'T GCD heal or if you did it was absolutely minimal. If you did, and felt Lady had any kind of utility whatsoever that's because your static or yourself was bad.

Bole was good if you were padding a dps because it's 150% potency increase of a balance card. Spear was good as an aoe pre-pull because it meant you could do your re-opener faster. Later on, it became a good alternative to balance if you had AOE and balance didn't appear. ...
Single target cards were better IF YOU GOT LUCKY. 4 100% potency correct cards on the correct 4 dps IS a dps increase over general -50% potency dps buff on ALL. It was very risky strat that's why I said "if you got lucky and had perfect cards for each dps in the party"

First off I apologize for mistyping Spear when I meant Spire. I did play the Spear as a compromise weak-balance when it was a crit buff. With that said... Nonsense. If you thought 150% or whatever single target card was with any kind of RNG even possibly superior to AoE, you need to work on your math (or your static must have been terrible). Alternative? Sure, a strictly inferior one that you won't ever play in optimal situations. Spear(3.x) AoE prepull? Did you ever play in a static that aligns buffs? Or a DPS job with decency ever? As for Ewer, it was good to draw for RR, true, but you never played it (which is what I said for other cards as well) in optimal situations and that's what you care about I am assuming. Same goes with padding... who cares if you could pad DPS.

I'm not sure if you remember old AST opener or if it was different on JP, but we used to fish for aoe balance + lord pre-opener.

Of course I remember, and I despised every aspect of it. For fights like O9 where you couldn't insta-wipe, I was put into O8 on my own where I jumped off the floor to fish cards prepull before we entered the zone. I never want to do that again.

The only thing I can relate to is your point on you liking RNG. Liking or disliking RNG is subjective opinion, and I have no right to deny you on this. However, as an AST player I genuinely question your competence.