Quote Originally Posted by Sloprano View Post
Have yet to level Ast, but I know exactly how you feel with Virus, Miasma Heavy and Shadowflare Slow (and many others) gone from Sch/Acn. Direct healing/damage have always been there, but it sounds like both jobs used to have a lot to break up the monotony and now it's all that remains.
You mean all 3 in HW, managing multiple dots on all 3 and WHM emnity tools, 15% healing buff tool, stoneskin for the tank or as an emergency dps shield, and if you had cleric stance as a cross class from WHM all 3 had stance dancing too for low healing phases for added DPS. Now it is just all 3 that have been gutted and not just WHM, although I don't miss stance dancing with the delay on it.

Back to AST, I'd love it if they kept 4 cards as is and made 2 of them a defense buff. Maybe both of each buff giving the same seal, but one turns to Lord and one turns to Lady for each seal to make them different and an astral/umbral split breaks the lore of the AST quests.