Balance was balanced

[Katlyna]

Its an interesting change... the net is less RNG for viable cards. None the less I worry that the effects of the cards given two card setups is too low.

If you math things out and say you're throwing AE Balance every time... now you would only be putting up a 5% buff for 30 seconds every 60 seconds... or a 2.5% buff to overall party damage if the star aligned over and over.

If that's our "best" then honestly its pretty sad panda IMO. This is part of the reason they buffed the skill in the past to begin with. Because when we throw a card it should have some impact on the battle. With such a small slice our impact has been lessened.

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Now I agree part of the problem with all of this is that Throwing a 10% AE buff to the whole party for 30 seconds was very respectable... but as everyone knows. This two card alignment simply didn't come up consistently. So its weird to say the overall change is probably neutral in our effectiveness. Our biggest tide turner was heavily nerfed, and one of our throw away cards was made viable.

So they fixed our RNG to some extent which is good... I'm just not sure if Astro's RNG utility will be felt with these smaller numbers.

[Cyrocco]

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It really seems like the Card buffs were needed when Astrologian didn't really meet par in regards to healing potencies, since AST was originally designed to be a Sub-WHM, Sub-SCH, but also had great buffing capablity. But with all the healing buffs and with more skills centered solely around raw healing power, the cards are kind of becoming a bonus.

It's basically turned into "You get a SCH and Buffs!" or "You get a WHM and Buffs!", if you add in how the RNG system isn't punishing at all, they really had to decide between nerfing potencies or nerfing cards, I guess they went with cards.

[Novak_04]

It really seems like the Card buffs were needed when Astrologian didn't really meet par in regards to healing potencies, since AST was originally designed to be a Sub-WHM, Sub-SCH, but also had great buffing capablity. But with all the healing buffs and with more skills centered solely around raw healing power, the cards are kind of becoming a bonus.

It's basically turned into "You get a SCH and Buffs!" or "You get a WHM and Buffs!", if you add in how the RNG system isn't punishing at all, they really had to decide between nerfing potencies or nerfing cards, I guess they went with cards.

Where exactly is THIS coming from? I'm looking at the patch notes and I'm not seeing any healing buffs...

[Cyrocco]

Where exactly is THIS coming from? I'm looking at the patch notes and I'm not seeing any healing buffs...

Please take a look at AST during 3.0 through 4.05, I was clearly talking about previous iterations of AST. AST previously offered okay heals and great buffing capability, with 4.0 that's great heals and great buffing capability. That's what I'm talking about specifically.

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

Maybe AST should be deleted and no new healing jobs should be implemented so they can stop complaining. But then, there'll be complaints of no new healing jobs. Lol

[Sylvain]

I don't mind the nerf on balance, it was just too potent and any other aoe card was just a waste.
Now at least, we have more options. Balance is still the obvious highest boost but it's not miles away in front of Arrow.

I like the new spear change, the card is finally usable without a discord call "Anyone needs CDR?".


I don't know about the 10sec duration nerf. At least it will make the Bole more interesting!
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Now the only change I would love to be implemented would be that Draw a card cooldown still runs while we have the card in hand so that every second I'm not using the card I'm not wasting my draw cooldown.

Next step
Ewer : Now replenishes TP and MP.
There's honestly no need for two différents cards for this kind of effect, especially that no job, but Bards and Paladin (during Heavy aoe moment), can benefit from MP + TP regen, it's one or the other. And that would hardly make the card OP.

Spire: Increase direct hit by 20% (single) -> 10% (aoe) for 20sec.
Yes, I was very inspired for the buff choice

i'm sure one card will outweigh the other of our 2 dps increase cards, but i feel like now at this point discarding one in an attempt to get the other would just hurt more than casting whichever one you got.

Yup! More card diverstiy ^^

[HyoMinPark]

I don't know about the 10sec duration nerf. At least it will make the Bole more interesting!

Where are you seeing this at? I've looked over the Patch Notes and, unless I'm blind, not seeing anything talking about card duration nerfs anywhere in there.

[Novak_04]

Where are you seeing this at? I've looked over the Patch Notes and, unless I'm blind, not seeing anything talking about card duration nerfs anywhere in there.

On the patch notes, it says:

The effect of this ability has been changed from "Reduces ability recast time for a party member or self by 20% for 20 seconds" to "Increases the critical hit rate for a party member or self by 10% for 20 seconds."

I think that's what he's referring to. Still unknown if this holds true for all of the cards.

[HyoMinPark]

On the patch notes, it says:

The effect of this ability has been changed from "Reduces ability recast time for a party member or self by 20% for 20 seconds" to "Increases the critical hit rate for a party member or self by 10% for 20 seconds."

I think that's what he's referring to. Still unknown if this holds true for all of the cards.

Spear was always 20 seconds, though. That's nothing new.

[Cupcakesu]

Where are you seeing this at? I've looked over the Patch Notes and, unless I'm blind, not seeing anything talking about card duration nerfs anywhere in there.

They're probably talking about Spear's 20s duration, although it always had a 20s duration so it hasn't been nerfed.