Quote Originally Posted by inhaledcorn View Post
The problem is AST's gimmick in and of itself just doesn't work within the context of FFXIV. Either all cards need to contribute to DPS and be random, or all cards need to be utility and be selectable. We can't have halfsies or else we have the problem of "Balance or bust". You may not like min-maxers, but that is the reality of the game.
The reality of the game is that there is nothing preventing people from clearing content with the previous iteration of cards, or when divination was tied to the seals, what happened was people were getting upset about missing out on a 2% damage increase with divination. And before that it was about a few hundred DPS between the top parsers when card effects were different. This has never been about the ability of the cards to make or break runs, it was about parsing the best numbers using the cards that is all, people got mad because they weren't getting top parses when the AST that was feeding them cards didn't draw enough balance cards.