AST card system idea

[Sylve]

My suggestion:

1. Reverse the changes to CU and double the current CO potency,
2. Cards need to last at least 30s long, and some other changes need to be done as well, especially Sleeve Draw

While I absolutely agree CO needs to be stronger, another way to do that is reduce the Recast to match Intersection. Buffing the potency sounds nice on paper, but CI feels so good in its current state despite its low potencies because it has a short cooldown.

As for cards … I strongly disagree that they need to be longer duration. Lets assume our AST is feeding just one person.
Take for example, a Bard with Raging strikes on a fight that lasts for 8 minutes. RS is usable 6 times for a total duration of 120 seconds.
In contrast, an AST uses Draw (Without SD) 16 times in the same fight. 13 times the Bard received an 8% damage up, 3 times for 6% for Seals. So our theoretical Bard had an 8% Damage Up effect for 195 seconds, with a further 45 seconds of 6% for a grand total of 240 seconds worth of bonus damage.

Now double those durations. Do you see the problem? Someone with better Maths than I could tell you the average bonus damage RS provides vs Cards. This isn't even counting the party wide effects of Div which would happen twice each for a total of 30 seconds of further boosted damage nor Sleeve Draw which can provide even more uptime.

The old 30 second durations made total sense, since Balance was a 1 in 6 draw. You also needed to hold that Balance you did draw in order to burn a Spire/Ewer on AoE RR. So in practice, the best the old cards could do was 5% to the party at best, once per minute. But RNG was never kind enough to provide you with that perfect scenario for an entire fight.
Even were you pushing cards to singular players every 30 seconds for 30 seconds, You had a 3 in 6 chance to draw a DPS card. Averaged over the course of a fight … That's 50% uptime. No different to what we have now.
As a final note, Not all DPS cards were made equal. 10% Haste was not equal to 10% Crit or 10% raw Damage.
This fluctuation in damage yields and uptime is quite likely the reason all cards are now 6% at 50% uptime.