Astrologian Cards Can't Be a Coin Flip: A petition

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Shadowbringers plans to strip all variety from Astrologian cards to the point it won't feel like you're even drawing from a deck anymore, but flipping a coin.


Bole / Ewer / Spire: "Increases damage dealt by a party member or self by 6% if target is ranged DPS or 3% for all other class types"

Balance / Arrow / Spear: "Increases damage dealt by a party member or self by 6% if target is melee DPS or 3% for all other classes



Each set of 2 cards has a color that stacks on a new job gauge. Once you have 3 separate colors you can activate an ability on a 180 second cooldown that increases your group's damage in an aoe around you by 3-6%.

The only time you think about which card to use, is once every 180 seconds, where your reward is to get an AoE Balance. Yes. Your reward for thinking about which cards to play is the same effect as the cards themselves.



No longer will you have to decide to use a Ewer for mana regen or as a dps increase. No longer will you have to decide to use a Bole on the tank to give yourself more room to dps, or to burn it for a royal road effect for your dps classes. Should you use an Arrow to give your black mage cast speed? Or risk rerolling it into a spire for the chance to get a Balance? Doesn't matter.


There's no reason to use spread, because, there's no effects to save. Every card can just be auto-used. I was excited to see redraw getting more power, but what is the point of buffing redraw when there's no longer a reason to use it?

This is not Astrologian. Astrologian is the only class I play because I love juggling the different card effects. Shadowbringers would remove the flavor from the class to the point of it being stripped of its key feature.


I feel cheated. It's like turning the Scholar fairy into a totem that has literally no spells, but increases healing done by a flat amount when it's active.

This is just my input but nobody really cared about any other card other than balance. When you get something not a balance you just redraw or royal road it.
Nobody liked arrow other than samurai's and Blm but even then, balance was better.

everything else is situational and never really ever use it, more so at high level.
You don't need bole, spire which every astro in their mom meme'd on how much they get it, arrow , spear is okish but still rather have a balance, ewer was ok but didn't really need it as well.