It's me, again! (AST checkup)

[Lynesse]

In short - for a dungeon/light party setting you should shoot for Extended cards first (Balance > Spear > Arrow) then Enhanced and Expanded should kind of be a last resort. This is due in part to proper use of time Dialation really increasing the card uptime on DPS.

You're not really wrong, but we need to be more flexible in PUG content. An AoE card is usually the safest bet because you never know who's going to fumble their rotation, stand in something and panic, die, etc.

The difference between an Expanded and an Extended is actually pretty small.

If you know for a fact one DPS is completely outdoing another, it's fine to use the 200% buff.

We also don't want to put Maeka on information overload. That kind of optimization depends entirely on the group. Learning AST is tough enough as it is without having to also pay such close attention to what the DPS are doing.

Edit: The biggest thing that Maeka needs to do is make his/her buttons rote. To know where they are without thinking about them. Muscle memory first, otherwise people become overloaded and burn out.