Quote Originally Posted by zipzo View Post
So what are AST's current issues/obstacles?
RNG on its primary mechanic (the buffs from Cards).

That's the biggest problem.

It's penalized as a healer due to having the potential to buff, but given that what buff you can apply is completely random and the buffs themselves are not very impactful unless you're getting a perfect string of Royal Road buffs on good Cards, it ends up being lackluster.

The cards need to be either less tied to RNG or a lot stronger to make up for it, and right now they're the worst of both worlds.

You'd need to cut the deck in half (let's say Balance, a combined Ewer/Spire and a combined Spear/Bole) and make it automatically apply to the entire party with no potency cuts in order to start beating out the DPS buff of just the uptime on Fey Wind from Scholar's Selene pet. Not counting that WHM and Scholar can both outdamage AST on their own, and can heal harder for longer.