Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
The buffs it gives are stronger than the DNC equivalent at a base level(I am maining DNC at the moment) but may not be as powerful as they were before (with Royal Road removed).
AST buffs now are a shadow of what they used to be. AOE Balance was +5% to the entire party for 30 seconds (and could be extended to 40s with the old Celestial Opposition, plus an additional 15s on a single player with Time Dilation). Now we have +6% to a single person for 15 seconds with no way to extend them, spread them, or enhance them. And the Draw timer is still cooldown the same outside of a Sleeve Draw window. So their buffs are pathetic compared to what they used to be. The original problem was with Balance being too good—but now every card is a crappier Balance, and all equally lackluster.

Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
2 min cooldown on Divination seems long, but I kinda get the feeling that was balanced around DNC's Technical Step too, which is a 5% every 2 mins (but gets a DPS move on top). Not gonna lie, it seems like it's an AST version of the DNC buff. Flat damage boosts and a system that's about matching symbols that affects potency. And it works nicely for DNC at least.
This is incorrect. Divination is 180s, which is 3 minutes. It lines up with DRG’s Battle Litany and BRD’s Battle Voice. It will not line up with every Technical Step outside of the opener, and at the 6 minute mark in a fight where all raid buffs line up again.

But the way I've been rotating it is building unique seals for Divination and then whilst Divination is on cooldown, take advantage of Lord/Lady of Crowns. I felt I wasted fewer cards with this system. Though that could be because I was a less experienced AST, I don't know how much wastage experienced AST's got.
With the old AST, once you got Minor Arcana at level 66, you didn’t waste any cards. If you weren’t going to hold them in a Spread or Royal Road them for an Extended/Enhanced/Expanded effect, you used them on Minor Arcana. Original Lady of Crowns was a free, oGCD heal (perfect for quick top-offs during Malefic spam), and Original Lord of Crowns was an oGCD damage ability. With Minor Arcana, there was no wasting of the cards. They just didn’t buff party members.