Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
The thing is that nobody disliked ShB AST, hell it was significantly ahead of SCH who was the floundering one

It was the EW changes and the EW changes alone that made everyone hate the job

Outside of divination being powered by seals which forced overuse of redraw when it still had 3 charges there was basically nothing wrong with ShB AST besides a bit of flavour that could have been added later (like adding certain effects to the existing cards

Whether you are a proponent of SB AST or later versions we all agree that EW AST is the worst version, but that doesn’t justify basically making it not Astro anymore
I think every SB ast enjoyer will disagree with you there. I hated the change to the cards going into SHB, I still managed to find enjoyment in SHB AST thanks to sleeve draw but it still felt far worse and more boring outside of that to play. Hardly takes a genius to recognise who should get what card when you drew it in SHB or EW for that matter. Having a reasonable understanding of the other jobs and you're good to go.

But I do agree EW AST was the worst by far and after giving it a solid try to stick with it I swapped to heal a tier as SCH and then moved out of healing entirely due to missing my AST for years. I have very much enjoyed delving more into DPS roles and hope to give PLD a go in the coming tier on an alt. Got my first ultimate done even, hoping to carry on with progging UCOB over summer.

I'm so happy with the job changes coming I am glad I have so many housing alts I can actually raid on most of them this summer since I will have more free time \o/ woooo

I will give this new AST a go and advocate we get back some of our card manipulation and a touch of rng, but that will be hard so long as parsers cry over it. I feel that the manipulation return is more likely if we all agree and advocate it.