Rework to AST card mechanics (Idea)

[SovereignAegis]

I agree with this with idea that card cooldown should NOT BE DECREASED unfortunately. Card draw shouldn't have a lower cooldown timer because we need to focus on healing and other beneficial effects. If we theoretically had 10s cooldown on cards that'd just be so much micromanagement that it'd basically become overwhelming to the vast majority (90%?) of players to continuously use their cards AND heal in dungeons.

The main focus should be on improving cards and making them all lucrative and pleasing to use. At present they aren't pleasing to use and are actually punishing (drawing spire over and over and over again. I HATE spire to the point where I have just tuned out after drawing 8 in a row (yes really has happened before).

[Dicejss]

Have a similar idea but I don't agree with some of your reworks. Royal Road should be the potency buff for whatever card you draw or have already drawn. Spread would "spread" the card buff as an aoe to whatever card you draw or already drawn. Then shuffle would give the duration boost. The Draw ability itself needs to go on cooldown right after you use it instead of after you use the card. Because that is one of the reasons we hardly get to use Draw as much as we should. Because 20 seconds isn't that bad it's because ti doesn't go on cooldown until you use the card.

[Vlady]

The cards are actually fine. Shuffle either needs another shorter cooldown or remove the double card draw part of it. Ugg that range sometimes. Collective and Oppo will most likely being altered in the near future as we are the only job with two useless cooldowns.

[OpheliaHeartilly]

The cards are actually fine.

No. Just no. The cards are the in game version of twiddling your thumbs or picking your nose. They are something to do to fill time between heals because SE knows you won't be doing much dps as an AST. The card potencies are in desperate need of an increase to make them significant. As they stand, they aren't meaningful in any way, and can't be counted on to change the tides during a battle, which is what they need to do.

[VitalSuit]

Shuffle either needs another shorter cooldown

You need to stop saying this, shuffle is fine as it is but yes it needs to stop redrawing the same card.
You can't make shuffle have a shorter cooldown because then it'd be up for EVERY draw rather than every other draw.
As shuffle is now you can use it on every 2nd draw it doesn't need to be any shorter than that.

[Vlady]

And I would say you need to stop saying shuffle is fine.the less we can remove range from our cards the better. 16% or twenty two with shuffle is still meh.

[GideonHighmourn]

16% or twenty two with shuffle is still meh.

Shuffle doesn't change the chance of drawing a different card. It's always a 17%~ chance to Draw any card, regardless if whether you Draw or Shuffle.

Shuffle is fine as it is; you can shuffle every other Draw. It's annoying to draw the same card twice, but that's RNG for ya.