Quote Originally Posted by Bole View Post
Stormblood was my favorite iteration, but I didn’t play in heavensward. This was back when cards all had different effects, and they had secondary effects from Royal Road. AST also had more time magic from Time Dilation and Celestial Opposition, which could extend cards, regens, lucid dreaming etc. Back then, earthly star also did less damage and was smaller, so it was mainly used as a healing tool - and its timing and placement mattered more. Shadowbringers was also a pretty good version of AST imo.

I’m not really sure what a good version of the 3-resource thing might look like. The most memey version that I’ve heard of is this: “every 20s you generate a stack for lady of the crowns. When you use three lady of the crowns, you gain a stack of lord of the crowns”, I would hope that this is just a meme.

My wishlist for AST would be:
1. Rework cards. The previous iterations were better, they could go back to any of them.
2. For heals, I’m mainly not a fan of Celestial Opposition as “just a free Aspected Helios” - I would like that to be reworked.
3. Figure out a purpose for pure and barrier healers, and rework how they fit into the meta. The barrier healers really shouldn’t be this strong.

Btw, if you didn’t like Scholar, you could try Sage. They’re very similar but you might like the aesthetics of Sage. In some aspects it’s easier too.
Honestly I think the whole barrier/regen healer they shot themselves on the foot by making that. It just creates an unecessary 'box' to limit how their general healing premise works, plus will it become uneven when they add a fifth healer? Or this healer will be flex like AST once used to be? (A slap on the face of ASTs, really).