Question for those who didn't pick up AST til 5.0 or after.

[Absurdity]

Fact is, once you started fishing, it became a job of correcting all of the rng 'mistakes', and sometimes you just couldn't correct them.
So you've redrawn and still only got Ewers and Spires? Gotta RR it then.
Next you get a Bole, crap, can't use it because you already RR'd, can RR it because you want the AoE damage buff... you've used your redraws and sleeve draw, you're fucked, you've lost a 60s card rotation and have no damage buff to apply.
Fishing for big payoffs is one thing, but fixing the mistakes of an rng system isn't fun.

The old system had a Great option, and Good option, a Meh option and complete Bust.
The new system has just situationally Good and Meh options, but at least you don't go bust, and no matter what you draw, you still charge up to a Great AoE buff to base your burst phase around.

Good point actually. I guess I would've just prefered if they kept those niche buffs in while also giving you tools to get that guaranteed good rng when you need it. I generally don't like it when they remove abilities that can situationally be very useful just because "hurr durr, you're not using it all the time".


Or just remove dps buffs from those cards entirely, make them defensive buffs, resource regeneration, selfheal, movement speed, etc and put the dps increase into Divination only. In that case you can still play around with rng buffs while reducing the impact they have on party dps.

Solo Arrow was wonderful on BLM or even on some other jobs. My friend WAR and NIN loved this.

I do not know how that NIN, the job that basically wanted 0 sks to not fuck with it's roation, could love Arrow and even on Warrior it was basically useless since you never ever built your sks required for 5x FC inside IR around outside buffs.
Although we might be talking about HW here and not SB, in that case just ignore me.