AST proposal: An idea revisited

[Supersnow845]

I can’t see how they could keep cards as oGCD’s and reduce the APM in the burst because they could never realistically tune the cards in such a way that dumping in the burst window isn’t optimal, they could remove the second charge on draw but APM of AST was still high in the burst window of ShB after they changed sleeve draw

The only thing you could do is gut auxiliary damage options like star and minor arcana so your entire burst window basically just becomes cards, even then it’s still debatable if it would fix the problem

[ASkellington]

I can’t see how they could keep cards as oGCD’s and reduce the APM in the burst because they could never realistically tune the cards in such a way that dumping in the burst window isn’t optimal, they could remove the second charge on draw but APM of AST was still high in the burst window of ShB after they changed sleeve draw

The only thing you could do is gut auxiliary damage options like star and minor arcana so your entire burst window basically just becomes cards, even then it’s still debatable if it would fix the problem

I mean, AST's APM is so high because you're trying to get seals.

In Shb it was so you could have Divination up (and then buffs of Lord/Lady until that was changed).

In EW its so you can have Astrodyne up on yourself (and 2-3 buffs on 2-3 party members).

Once you're out the opener though, AST's APM kinda drops. You don't have 2 charges of Draw constantly after all and you're gaining seals as you buff your allies.

Now targeting on controller adds more to it since you need to cycle from what I'm hearing on the party list, which is where I think the APM is blown out the water by comparison to kb+m, but I don't think there's a fix for that in terms of AST's kit.

Moving it to the GCD doesn't change that you still need to target your allies which is going to be a few extra presses compared to a MO or mouse click - tab back to target on kb.