
Originally Posted by
Kissune
Sooo... you're mad that they got rid of RNG utility cards in ShB... Your favourite part of StB AST was the different cards you could adapt to and manipulate... But you're happy that RNG cards are going away entirely? Aaaand you think having zero RNG, zero manipulation, and zero thought isn't going to 'bore you to tears?' All of this to 'own the ShB/EW ast mains'? I mean, you do you, I guess, but if this rework is drawing you back to the game I think you might have just wanted to play scholar instead since what we're getting is closer to aetherflow than anything pre-ShB. Cards aren't all damage sure, because they aren't cards anymore. The only thing they have in common with anything resembling the cards from HW to EW is a name and a visual. I would have been more fine with stormblood cards being added back in their entirety than this, but you can go ahead and argue that I'm wrong for wanting to have to think about what I'm doing and adapt rather than playing the exact same cards in the exact same spots with the exact same effects every single pull. And yes, even EW cards had variance to them. You might not like them being 'all damage' but AST having the highest gap between highest and lowest dps shows that there's a substantial difference between an AST who thinks, and one who doesn't. 'Oh but there's only melee and ranged and seals don't matter bc dyne is a dps buff' yeah keep repeating that in your head when it turns out that the two mitigation cards are just a 300 potency shield and a flat 15% mit and you have to convince yourself that these matter in any fundamental way. So I hope you enjoy your starry white mage, and I'll see you here in 7.1 complaining with me that cards aren't interesting enough bc I can assure you, if stormblood cards are what you wanted, they ain't here. Enjoy pressing the same 4 buttons that do the same thing at the same time to the same people, though, I'm sure you'll be absolutely fascinated by all the new options you have like... ED 2, Exalt 2, Intersection 2... And all the different ways to interact with them, like playing them! Wow! Innovative! No other healer just plays single target healing spells or mit spells, wow! But it's okay guys, it's different, because this time... They have different VFX and can only be used every other minute, but are used for the exact same thing bc it actually doesn't matter the effects if you don't have a choice in which one you use! Isn't that amazing?