Astro Card system is useless!

[Alice_Rivers]

I honestly don't see any way in which the job now is worse than in EW, the randomness was irrelevant - yes there were six skins and six card names but there were only two functions, Astrodyne was neat but hardly the be all and end all. We have more options than before, I fail to see any way in which that is bad. I don't see why it should be mandatory that everything should be used every time it can be, that would just lead to throwing away Synastry and Neutral Sect for no gain simply because they're there.

I can't speak to HW/ST AST, I came to the game in 2021/2022, from what I'm seeing in DT and what I've heard about the old card system it could well be that they are better iterations of the job but for me this is absolutely a step in the right direction, I'm loving every minute of it.

[Supersnow845]

I honestly don't see any way in which the job now is worse than in EW, the randomness was irrelevant - yes there were six skins and six card names but there were only two functions, Astrodyne was neat but hardly the be all and end all. We have more options than before, I fail to see any way in which that is bad. I don't see why it should be mandatory that everything should be used every time it can be, that would just lead to throwing away Synastry and Neutral Sect for no gain simply because they're there.

I can't speak to HW/ST AST, I came to the game in 2021/2022, from what I'm seeing in DT and what I've heard about the old card system it could well be that they are better iterations of the job but for me this is absolutely a step in the right direction, I'm loving every minute of it.

I don’t think anyone is defending EW AST

DT just feels like a lateral move on AST’s worst iteration across its 4 iterations

We just went from bad complexity to redundant bloat

[PyurBlue]

I don't see why it should be mandatory that everything should be used every time it can be

It's nice to have some situational skills that don't just get pressed on cooldown always, though some players will be put off if a situational skill is so niche it almost never gets used. Low to non existent healing requirements are contributing to that but I still see it as an external problem. AST is pretty good right now, but healing overall is in a bad state.

[Alice_Rivers]

Low to non existent healing requirements are contributing to that but I still see it as an external problem. AST is pretty good right now, but healing overall is in a bad state.

This is absolutely something I agree with. I felt really good as a healer leveling through the 90-100 range, being undergeared for the dungeons, my tank also being undergeared and actually having to use our kits to get through. But I'll stop there rather than risk getting off topic.