Balance was balanced

[MagicalLoli]

The Balance (Single Target) Increase to damage dealt reduced from 20% to 10%.

The Balance (Area of Effect) Increase to damage dealt reduced from 10% to 5%

However, spear now gives 10%/5% crit~

Discuss!

[Anastacy]

Well, that most recent Spear thread is out the window.

[KDSilver]

Well, ast will still shine and will have a great place with this BUT

This sounds like Spear will now be more used. And it's a good thing since it was almost forgotten

[Novak_04]

I am quite satisfied with this change. Standby for overwhelming whining, however. You know it's coming...

[Cyrocco]

I hope the other ASTs are happy now, they screamed for buffs so hard they got us a nerf.

[HyoMinPark]

I hope the other ASTs are happy now, they screamed for buffs so hard they got us a nerf.

The ability to discard Spreads and Royal Roads was something we already had before and was removed only due to oversight: when they changed card effects from status effects over into the new gauge.
It's not a buff to be able to even further micro-manage your cards; that's just playing the job the way it's supposed to be played, and not all ASTs are going to throw away everything just to AOE Balance every chance they get. The ASTs that do aren't playing the job correctly. Royal Road and Spread will still have their applicable cooldowns, just like they did before. Discard a bad Spread? Well, you still have to wait 30 seconds to actually hold another card.
People are still going to want Balance more than anything else. That's not going to change.

[Cyrocco]

/Snip

Are you...coming at me from a different thread or something? This response doesn't even look like it makes sense, and you're deliberately replying to me, so I'm gonna assume you hold a grudge from another thread.

Also: AST Gauge was a nerf, ASTs whined, got the pathetic excuse for an RNG system back, it really is that simple, sweetheart.

Now, given that this seems highly off-topic, I'll be ignoring further conversation on this subject, within this thread, as that's against even the most basic forum rules.

[HyoMinPark]

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Perhaps if you weren't complaining about this in every AST thread made in the last week... >.>

The ability to micromanage cards is what makes a good AST a good AST. Balance nerf wasn't caused by ASTs wanting the ability to micromanage back, sweetheart.

With two new skills (three skills if you could the one that came with vanilla 4.0) to restore a simple old function, I find myself seriously questioning the necessity of subjecting each class to a gauge.

To be fair, for those of us who played on controller, it wasn't easy to just right-click the status effects of Spreads, RRs, and Draws off, so we had to use macros. The three skills isn't anything different from what we used before. That being said, I do like the gauge because it makes my Arcana more visible, something I can appreciate.

[Miste]

it really is that simple, sweetheart.

Please don't use condescending pet names at people when you try to argue with them. It's disgustingly rude and unnecessary.

[Warr_of_Lint]

The ability to discard Spreads and Royal Roads was something we already had before and was removed only due to oversight: when they changed card effects from status effects over into the new gauge.

With two new skills (three skills if you could the one that came with vanilla 4.0) to restore a simple old function, I find myself seriously questioning the necessity of subjecting each class to a gauge.