Quote Originally Posted by ASkellington View Post
"Lore" didn't stop them from removing Nocturnal Sect. Or Time Dilation. And the lv30-50 quests are already meaningless because the cards don't even do what the NPC says they do.
Noct Sect and Time Dilation do not have the same significance in the lore. The Bole, Ewer, Spire, Arrow, etc. are constellations, and the cards are representative of them. There are staples in the lore surrounding all jobs in this game, and if that is tied to an ability, or abilities, chances are it will never leave the game. Are you suggesting to remove the cards? Because that would be like removing SCH's fairy, MNK's forbidden chakra, WAR's inner release and so forth. The cards, and the card system will always be part of AST in some form or another.

Astrodyne is trash and should be removed. Its a self buff on a party buffing class. Divination which was what Astrodyne used to be is already fixed at maximum damage. There's no reason for the Seals to not be a separate Utility buffing option other than they didn't want to put in the effort. They could have LITERALLY made Bole, Ewer and Spire into the Seals system akin to what we have in PvP and it would have been better than the garbage we have now. Because it is garbage. We don't need Mana - we have Lucid Dreaming. Haste also means nothing when we have short recast timers on everything that isn't instant except Ascend and who the hells cares about a 6% increase on the lowest personal damage healer in the game?
Ok. this is just a rant. But ok.

As for Undraw? This ability should have been removed at the start of Shadowbringers. There is 0 reason to Undraw a card now, there was 0 reason to Undraw then.

And NO to Play/Draw being on the GCD. Ninja Mudras feel awkward I don't want that on AST. At all if you can make it feel smooth. In fact the reason WHY Ast has high APM is because of the Seals system. Remove it and install the cards somewhat to how they used to be and look at that, you only have to draw once every 30s if you get rid of the second charge.
Dude. Did you even play NIN when the mudras where off the global cooldown? Bunny Medium, bud. Bunny Medium all day, every day. Placing the cards/play on the GCD is just a suggestion. Don't lose any sleep over it.