Ast card system change

[Haxaan]

I'm not trying to be a debbie downer, but I think we all need to be realistic in our expectations. I personally think the card system now has a lot of potential, but I also think most ASTs are focusing too much on how it used to play instead of looking forward and working with the new design structure and SE's stated design goals when they propose changes. I like the system, I think it needs a few changes to work better and really open up its potential and I anticipate us getting them, and I think we can all agree on the fact that:

1.) Divination and seals aren't going away, and if they are, it won't be until the next expansion.
2.) We're not going to get damage buffs of 10%+ because they don't want AST to feel mandatory and that amount of a buff is too much for AST to bring. Dancer is the new synergy.
3.) They're not just going to "put the old system back in." This is not how game development works.
4.) We're not getting back Time Dilation, and probably not getting back the buff extension on CO.

I strongly believe that any changes to this system are going to come to Divination itself, not to the cards. We're not losing Divination or seals, and yet most proposals I see for "reworks" are just the old system with Divination taped on. Think about it. If you bring back, say, Bole as it was, but with seals, do you really want to find yourself in a position where you're searching specifically for Bole because you need the seal from it for Divination but you also want it for the upcoming tankbuster? Redrawing over and over specifically for Ewer to give to your cohealer you just raised? At least right now you have 2 options for every seal. I strongly believe that we can have either separate effects on each card or we can have Divination, not both.*

*I will note here that my preferred change to Divination is one where the effects, not just numbers, of Divination change based on your spread of seals, so I'm not necessarily against big changes to it.

I totally understand where you're coming from. I also understand that Divination is one of the new gimmicks for AST right now. So is Horoscope. I do not believe that Time Dilation is coming back, no matter how bad it pains me, but I do believe that CO can be reverted to its old mechanic. We have seen over the years that they have reverted abilities and even brought old ones back before if they felt that they should be brought back. Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. It is to early in the game to know for sure what they plan to do. They won't be doing anything until after the raids drop because they want to see how well things play together and then they will adjust from their. If the jobs are to clunky they will fix them, or at least keep putting band-aids on them until the next expac.