Astrologian Speculations! How will it fit in?

[LycorisSelunis]

I like the idea of a 'dud card' because it pretty much makes perfect fuel for Royal Road. Unless you get really screwed and draw it again....

That being said the implication I got from the hots is that it might be a hot version of adlo- a heal with a hot tacked into it. Would love that ^^

I also played a lot of healers in WoW and druid was definitely my main, though the shaman/holy priest/monk all had hot elements in their kits too, just something I have always liked. I have both healers in this game, and like them both for different reasons (oddly enough I hated disc priest in wow but love scholar Eos FTW) and I plan to get all 3 healers to 60 as well. Just a question of what order to do it in....

[Ghishlain]

I'm curious to see the deck "composition". Like, is it one copy of all six cards? Two / three copies of all six cards for a total of 12/18 card deck? I'm also wondering if you use "Spread" on a card if it'll permanently remove the card from your deck until the card is used.

This is important to me because it'll affect how AST is played. For example, if it's a six card deck (one copy of every card) and "Spread" permanently removes the card from your deck until consumed, then it's possible to "remove" the dud card indefinitely, but then leave your deck draws completely up to RNG. Alternatively, save a good card and making it a higher chance to draw the dud card (20% versus 17%) when activating other card drawing abilities. Likewise, the tactics and probabilities get changed even further if there are "bigger decks with multiple copies", let alone if there can be multiple quantities for each card and the quantities of each copy are different (like say 4 + 4 + 2 + 5 + 3 + 1 for a total of 19 cards, etc).

The nuances are interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing how AST develops as more information is given / found.

- I plan to get all 3 healers to 60 as well. Just a question of what order to do it in....

I'm personally going to be taking my main (in this case, WHM) up to 60 while doing MSQ and making sure to use LLDR every day on AST to get it up to snuff at a decent rate (this is assuming leveling remains the same). This feels more efficient for my own time constraints and you may find something similar to that.