Quote Originally Posted by Aelin_Ashryver View Post
Having dropped AST in EW due to hating the state of it these changes make me hopeful to regain SOME feeling of SB ast cards back. Having every card be damage only was just boring. I do love the higher pacing of the job and it seems we lose that somewhat but we will see. I also like the proactive healing it does compared to whitemage. Hyped to try AST again after hating the EW iteration of it. Stormblood astro is still my fave by far.
??? Sorry but this type of opinion is why AST has been gutted to nothingness. You have an entire toolkit focused around healing and mitigating, why do you need the cards to give you MORE tools that you do not need? It was common opinion in SB that the cards being different was sure, conceptually interesting, but practically redundant because you would always fish for balance and or spear in any type of meaningful content. Like @Kissune points out, they're not even the same. It's restrictive and far less interesting than SB cards. So current AST mains are losing what they love, and AST mains from SB aren't even getting what they want back - no one wins LMAO.

You don't even get to fish for the one you want, they're all forced on you every minute and you will not actually use the mitigation or healing cards EVER in casual content. Even in high end content, you have so many other OGCD tools to compensate for these cards missing. It's not like you ever needed Lady anyway, so why would you need it now, or a second variation of it but single-target when they're about to give AST a third charge of ED?

This change isn't for current AST mains or old ones who want their old job back, its for garbage or lazy players who never wanted to learn AST properly, but wanted to play the healer with the (arguably best) starry aesthetic.