I sure love how you keep dismissing everything I say while getting your panties in a twist by saying I'm ignoring what you're saying and then insulting me over it. Glass houses, bestie.
And yes, you have the same issue the volt guy has where you talk as if the only defining feature of stormblood cards was their unique effects on target and not any of the stuff around it. Implying DT cards are better than ShB/EW cards bc they take one step towards stormblood and five steps back just feels like, you know, delusion. But hey, reading exactly what you say is hard when all you do is pout about how I'm apparently bad at taking 'DT cards are more of what I like' at face value when DT cards have less in common with stormblood cards than EW ones do. But go off. You can insist that you're gonna 'ask for card manipulation back' but you have to be real with yourself that they don't add complexity back to jobs that lose it. Especially not AST. It's had 4 straight expansions of losing complexity. Each time it's a brand new 'base to build off of' and every time instead of building off that base they just make a new, easier one. And it frustrates me that you are coping so hard that it'll be different this time. I honestly wish I had your level of faith in square enix after having your main destroyed in front of you more than once. It seems like you're happier in your delusions, and I almost envy that.
They had healchecks, yes. But I rarely felt like I was being challenged as an AST (literally just death's toll) and not just as a healer. Wroth of flames was actually extremely fun on AST bc I had to do my 2min at the start of double dragons without lightspeed in order to have it up to heal through the akh morns. That was one mechanic. In a 20 minute fight. In an ultimate. And then in TOP, there was exactly one singular healcheck, which was trivialized by the fact that it was the only one. As it turns out, if you have one or even multiple healcheck but you have them minutes apart, there is no punishment for just... blowing your entire healing kit on it and trivializing it. I used basically everything on bluescreen to heal it. Bc I didn't need to heal at all beyond a single aoe regen for the entire next phase and a half. That's what I mean when I say that healchecks aren't there. They show up once a fight, and are completely trivialized by being the only one in a fight. We need multiple healchecks over time, to strain out our resources and expose the weaknesses AND strengths of each healer. And I just don't see that happening, sorry.
YoshiP said he'd change it in EW too, y'know. He says a lot of things, doesn't he? A lot of things that don't come true lmao.
It doesn't bother me that you're going to like the DT cards over EW. Why would that bother me? The part that bothers me is your reasoning for it is just so nonsensical. You insist it's because they're more like Stormblood cards, but from my perspective they have only superficial commonalities at the cost of everything interesting about them. But no yeah, keep insulting me over what you continue to make up about my own arguments while accusing me of doing the same. Surely that'll help us reach an understanding.