New Astrologian's design complaints (sorry)

[Kissune]

SB iteration being the most popular speaks volumes, regardless of if in high end you would sit prepull fishing for balance or not overall it was more enjoyable across ALL content than durrr all card do dmg that it became.

So I will call it a win, I get to actually play my old main again after two years of waiting. Gutted to nothingness for me was EW where for god knows what reason we couldn't be oprah throwing a million cards at high speeds, we got the nasty business that was astrodyne and our rng mitigation tool in redraw was nerfed leaving the job more frustrating than it ever was in shb. It was slower, more annoying and dumber than ever before so I dropped it.

You do not seem to understand that you are not interacting with your cards anymore. THESE ARE NOT CARDS. They look like them, but they function nothing like what they did in stormblood. Stormblood cards were random, and they could be burned for greater effects later. These? This is no different than an aetherflow that tells you how to spend it. You are not looking at what the actual changes entail and realize that they will not function as cards except for sheer aesthetics alone.

If you think EW AST is boring, that's fine, that's whatever. But AST's identity even back in stormblood was reacting to what you got and adjusting your plan in real time. Instead what we have now is the same four cards, drawn at the same time every single fight, with zero semblance of reactivity. You press the aetherflow button, you get the 4 aetherflow stacks, and you can't

This is what being gutted to nothingness looks like, not Endwalker AST. At least endwalker astro had to actually think on the fly about which cards went where. Now? We get 2 damage cards in burst, the same two every time, and a bunch of spot healing and mit tools that you either use at the exact same time every fight or you don't bc they're completely predictable. There's no royal road, there's no spread, there's no sleeve draw. It's just play or do not play. These are not SB cards. EW cards have more in common with them.

Do you seriously not understand how removing all RNG from the job makes it essentially no longer AST? Or are you seriously enjoying having your 'card draws' (which aren't even being drawn anymore. Just handpicked from the same alternating set) be completely fixed and unchanging?

Please look up what they are actually doing to AST because I don't think you really realize what 'all RNG being gone' means for the class.