I made a mistake by ignoring the dev discussions (AST changes)

[Yakugami]

Can we please stop grouping the AST's that solely fished for balance with the AST's that actually enjoyed the class and used all the cards? I'm getting tired of seeing that same repetitive comment. Most of us didn't whine when we didn't get a balance.

i'll start by saying, again, i still disagree with the way they handled cards this expansion

however, to be fair, it definitely should have changed, regardless of the community "whines" or not

expansions will mean classes evolve

just because some people enjoy their classes and doing the same thing for years and years and years each expansion, doesn't mean it's healthy for the game to have classes that don't change and evolve their rotations and mechanics over time, especially when they're outdated, or are completely overwhelming compared to other options, even with minor tweaks, simply because of how mechanics directly affect the game

them wanting to change the card mechanic made perfect sense, they just.... yea, kinda also didn't exactly do it very well, but, still

you know what else is "the same repetitive comment"?
people going around saying that "wE uSeD aLl OuR cArDs"
that's great for you and those who accepted being inefficient

but an entire class shouldn't be balanced around "muh nostalgia" and "i have "options" even though those "options" are really just unnecessary fluff"
(again, yes, i dislike what they currently did; i don't find it entertaining to have 7 buttons dedicated to sub 10% damage bonus, that IS bad, i agree)

but basically it was also pretty bad even before when you actually look at it
(as a mechanic, i get that AST was still top pick healer due to what they offered, but that's not what i mean here, it's trying to fish for damage to be efficient that caused the mechanic itself to be bad as a concept)

(cont....)