Quote Originally Posted by Esunya View Post
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Thank you for your input! I'm starting to think that having to use draw, whose only use is to subsequentially allow the use of redraw and play, is actually considered one of the more difficult aspects of Astrologian's kit.
Now I see from your fflogs page that you are a Black Mage main, so allow me to put it in easier terms for you to understand.

Imagine if there was a button on Black Mage whose only purpose was to enable the subsequent use of Foul/Xenoglossy - there is no skill in pressing the button itself, as the placement of Xenoglossy in your rotation is the part that actually matters.
Would such a button be seen as 'vital to BLM's kit and dumbing down if removed', or would it be just fine if the Elemental Gauge continues to feed you a Xenoglossy usage (with stacks shown on the gauge) every 30s.
I actually based this 'moving Draw to the gauge' idea from Black Mage's Enochian-Foul/Xeno interaction, so it should seem familiar enough.

As for the 'simplification' - was it simplification to have Sleeve Draw give you 3 cards instead of refresh Draw's cooldown 3 times? Was it simplication to have ShB Minor Arcana just play the minor version instead of converting the card?
Absolutely not. It was to stop the massive amount of weaving and improve how it feels to play Astrologian. Needing to press a button whose only purpose is to allow you to press a different button only serves to clutter Astrologian's already busy burst phase and mandate the usage of Lightspeed (AST's only movement tool) in 120s intervals while it has a 90s cooldown.

Then maybe with those free buttons we can finally get an actual interesting damaging skill to alleviate the boredom of downtime malefic spam. God I wish...