I miss old AST cards

[FireMage]

The only time you should take that person's posts seriously is if at least 1 other person supports the claim with their own argument, which almost never happens.

SGE technically doesn't do everything SCH does to a tee, but it doesn't exactly bring much new to the table. I'd say 80% of the kit is recycled from SCH with some tiny twist, so I understand when people call it a clone.

Yeah that totally explains how Sage can easily be run out of resources, but SCH doesn't sans Aetherflow...oh wait...

[KDSilver]

The only time you should take that person's posts seriously is if at least 1 other person supports the claim with their own argument, which almost never happens.

SGE technically doesn't do everything SCH does to a tee, but it doesn't exactly bring much new to the table. I'd say 80% of the kit is recycled from SCH with some tiny twist, so I understand when people call it a clone.

Yeah the root are the same.

[Maltothoris]

Yes I would agree SGE is ultimately a less janky and less powerful version of SCH.

Anyways back to the topic of cards, the old cards offered high-highs and low-lows but it was always fun to just use an enhanced Bole on a tank in a dungeon and just aspected Helios, benefic and collective unconscious on them and use time dilation and celestial opposition for 55 seconds super hots and the defense card.

While this system is more consistent , if at the cost of what you can do with it.

[Mithron]

While this system is more consistent , if at the cost of what you can do with it.

My friends and I did a 3 man Titan ex synced in HW pre-Spear change with DRK/AST/NIN and it was a blast. The AST would give me Boles and Spears so I could tank CD the Mountain Busters with 5 stacks on and survive. Niche, but so much fun.

[IDontPetLalas]

The only time you should take that person's posts seriously is if at least 1 other person supports the claim with their own argument, which almost never happens.

SGE technically doesn't do everything SCH does to a tee, but it doesn't exactly bring much new to the table. I'd say 80% of the kit is recycled from SCH with some tiny twist, so I understand when people call it a clone.

is that a person?/ I thought a moderator had some AI bot that was going through some testing from some of the posts, honestly our chatbot is much friendlier.

[Recon1o6]

back on the topic
another reason I miss ast cards? identity. Everything did something different, it was an ever changing section of your job and it was beautiful amongst all the rigid rotations to have something completely random in a game of jump rope.

look nowadays and how everything is a 2m burst and why randomness is a good thing

[Payadopa]

back on the topic
another reason I miss ast cards? identity. Everything did something different, it was an ever changing section of your job and it was beautiful amongst all the rigid rotations to have something completely random in a game of jump rope.

look nowadays and how everything is a 2m burst and why randomness is a good thing

That's also what I miss. The thinking on the fly. Rotations are fine, I guess, but I started playing AST *because* of the random nature. Now it's sand blasted off so much it's a shame. And the three symbols are just boring.

[ForsakenRoe]

look nowadays and how everything is a 2m burst and why randomness is a good thing

No don't you see, the perfect situation for job design is that we treat every boss as a training dummy with extra steps, and we come up with starts that allow us to treat it as much like a training dummy as possible, hence why every boss this tier has pretty much 100% melee uptime. Having to adjust to downtime? Holding a Raiton/HarvestMoon knowing there's downtime coming up? Don't want THAT kind of optimization, because then the Raiton isn't in burst window and that's less damage. So now everything is 2min burst windows, everything gets 100% uptime, the classes STILL aren't balanced, and logs are still affected by RNG, because crit variance and DHit variance. The difference between two GNBs who do the same rotation, but one gets every DD crit and the other gets none, is crazy. This tier, some groups were walled by the Phase 1 Doorboss because of just 'guess we didnt crit enough' that's AWFUL design. So should we also remove crit and DHit because that's RNG too? Which kind of RNG is 'good RNG' and which is 'bad RNG', because I'd argue they got it backwards. Crit is bad RNG because you can't do anything about it, it just happens or it doesn't. But the old AST cards were arguably good RNG, you could reroll a Spire and try to get a better card. You could gamble when you had Expanded RR and drew a Spear: do you play the AOE Spear, or reroll it hoping for a Balance?

'Manipulating fate' was the identity of AST, and the reason we could reroll the cards to bend fate in our favor. But now it seems everyone's fate is +6% damage, and no matter how much we reroll, it doesn't change. I hope we can reroll the fate of the class in 7.0 because the fate it faces is looking pretty bleak

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Probably best not to bother trying to interact with FireMage, his takes are so bad even GameFAQs knows he should be ignored, I guess they wised up to his antics so much that he can't get his jollies there anymore so now he's trying his luck here

Oh Gods, they're everywhere. There goes my blocklist's virginity lol.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

STB ast is why I even stuck with the game, I miss it