Instead of cutting Ultimate from 5.5 why not cut bozja?

[ForteNightshade]

Like raiders respected AST and their old cards? lol No.

Raiders make the game more boring for all, one meta at a time. And the majority is not allowed to have anything interesting 'cause meta and parsing.

You said this same nonsense over on the healer forums and I called it out there too. Raiders didn't complain jobs were too difficult; that buffs like Straight Shot and Heavy Thrust were too difficult to manage; that HW Dark Knight was too complex; that SB Bard was too confusing. Practically every simplification made was due to casual players being unable or unwilling to learn how their job of choice functioned. Few if any raiders wanted changes like this. Our demographic is often bringing up how healers are Glare bots because even Savage isn't hitting hard enough.

Speaking on Astro, specifically. While I have my issues with the current system. The old cards simply wouldn't work nowadays. Let's review!

Balance - Best card without question
Spear - Weak Balance
Arrow - Will cause a DPS loss to several jobs due to them wanting no increased speed. Ninja, Machinist, Monk, Samurai, Dancer, Gunbreaker and Paladin are all jobs that would want to slap you if they ever saw this card on their bar.

Bole - Inconsistent mitigation is useless since you can't plan around it. Furthermore, with the sheer amount of mitigation tools we have. Bole just... doesn't have a purpose anymore.
Ewer - The last thing healers need nowadays is more MP
Spire - TP died

Regardless of "meta," Astro's cards required a complete rework due to the direction Shadowbringers went in. None that had anything to do with raiders.