Quote Originally Posted by SieyaM View Post
I would like to be hopeful but history doesn't indicate that they will make meaningful or positive changes to the job. Since the card system seems to be giving them so much trouble they may opt to remove it all together and just increase AST attack potencies to compensate, then add in even more oGCD heals because sure why not. I don't know why AST is the one getting major adjustments though. There are complaints sure, but of the healers AST isn't the one that has the most complaints. WHM seems to be the one that needs some kind of major adjustment.
If they remove cards from AST they may as well remove the job as a whole and rebrand it as Time Mage the healer.

AST's decline in popularity stems from SE's unwillingness to revert their homogenization of AST's cards. It has been very clear at least to me when I started in Shadowbringers AST mains do not give a single wit to how powerful we are. We just want fun (like the rest of the healers admittedly) and our damn cards back.

The PvP team made it work there. It's clear the PvE team can make it work here.