I am not normally a doom and gloom type, I don't even post on the forums, but man these changes killed the card system, as well as two of my favorite skills in Time Dilation and Celestial Opposition. It sucked the soul out of my favorite job. Cards used to be fairly interesting, but now it feels just like every other simple build-up and ultimate bar. There is no personality to it. Sure, balance was usually the right answer, especially in 8-man content. But other situations did call for other buffs, and making the best of what you got was part of the fun. My biggest issue playing a healer in FFXIV was how dull it could be in easier content or while solo. Other than shifting gravity down to 45, they have made it worse. There is no nuance in this version of AST. I'd switch my main to SCH, but they made sure that is dull and unengaging looking as well. Never been a big fan of the WHM aesthetic, I guess I will be a DPS main now.

I genuinely do not understand these changes. I've been playing MMOs for twenty years and I can count on one hand the number of times I have disagreed with a rework this much.