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

[Ceasaria]

So what I have understood so far, within our community, we have 2 types of Astrologian :
- Sharlayan Astrologian who use every card based on their priorities/beliefs.
-- Some have no particular objective and use them all depending of the situation.
-- Some have for the optimal objective to throw Balance AOE, but are willing to use the others to minimize the waste or taking advantage / recover from a situation.
- Ishgardian Astrologian who use only Balance AOE (and discard/minor arcana the others).

Sharlayan Astrologian love to deal with RNG, love to have many choices and evaluate the possibilities depending of their belief and actual situation in the fight.
They are not happy with the cards system rework.
Ishgardian Astrologian are bored with RNG and live for the sake of Balance.
They are happy with the cards system rework (and no more Time abilities I guess).

Based on the OP post :
Astrologian from HW to SB is using the precepts of Sharlayan.
Astrologian from ShB is using the precepts of Ishgard.

It's clearly a new direction and I'am quite sceptic.
I mean we have two different Astrologians right here who could be two different jobs (if tweaked a bit more).

Would Tanks and DPS be happy if their identity shift to another one ?
I don't think so.

My suggestion is to separate the two iterations of AST in Sharlayan Astrologian and Gambler, which mean adding a 4th healer job during this expansion.
Keep everything Sharlayan Astrologian has and enhance him.
Take the seals system from Ishgardian Astrologian and give it to Gambler, and design the job around it.

[Iscah]

So what I have understood so far, within our community, we have 2 types of Astrologian :
- Sharlayan Astrologian who use every card based on their priorities/
- Ishgardian Astrologian who use only Balance AOE (and discard/minor arcana the others).

That's not at all the difference between the two astrology schools.

Ishgardian astrology only involves (as far as we're made aware) observations of the stars, primarily the Dragon Star, and using it to predict the activities of the Dravanian Horde.

Cards and battle/healing astromancy are entirely Sharlayan, however you use it. We spend the entire Lv30-60 questline trying to spread these techniques to the Ishgardians.

[SpiritMuse]

My suggestion is to separate the two iterations of AST in Sharlayan Astrologian and Gambler, which mean adding a 4th healer job during this expansion.
Keep everything Sharlayan Astrologian has and enhance him.
Take the seals system from Ishgardian Astrologian and give it to Gambler, and design the job around it.

If we wanna go that route, I'd suggest Geomancer instead of Gambler, as Geomancer has already been introduced as Astrologian-adjacent in the job quests.