Goodbye Shadowbringers

[Gemina]

AST main, I like neutral sect. Nocturnal stance sucks comparatively to diurnal and I too miss the old cards, it seems our new self buff will be filled with frustrating rng that we cannot mitigate with sleeve draw as well since it is gone.

As it should be. The card mech is supposed to be a game of chance, and if you can just mitigate the RNG from the divine deck and get the desired result nearly 100% of the time, it defeats the purpose of having a divine deck. They might as well just give you a button you can push every 120s. The devs finally figured this out somewhat. I say, "somewhat" because they did do that with Divination, but the AST can still redraw for Astrodyne. I cannot stress enough that mitigating the RNG screws up this entire mechanic. It needs to go away completely.

I think (hope) the devs will eventually figure out that obtaining one of each seal is actually the second easiest result to get. The hardest is actually getting three of the same seal. This is so key in truly and finally circumventing the card mech issues in its current form. It's like slots, and the way this should work is:

Easy: 2 of the same seal + 1 other seal = Good (Haste)
Harder: 1 of each seal = Better (Damage up)
Hardest: 3 of the same seal = Best (Haste + Damage up)

You should not be able to get the best result every time. The second draw will determine wither or not you will even be able to get the best result at all. If your second draw is a different seal, that is not as favorable as the same seal, but you can still get a DMG boost. If it is the same seal, then you get a chance at haste and the DMG boost; and the third and final draw will determine the fortune of the AST.

Just Haste is the consolation given to the AST when the final draw is undesirable. The majority of the time under this system, the AST is just going to end up with a Haste buff, and that's fine. Haste is nothing to scoff at. Draw stacks also need to go up to three. Stop penalizing the AST when they get into situations when they really need to focus on healing FFS.