Just give us back the old system. You shouldn't drastically change a core system that lot of people liked, and nobody was complaining about. AST was not MCH. We were pretty happy with our job. The main complaints I saw were about Spire being useless, and about obligatory pre-pull Balance fishing in hardcore raiding groups.

So make Spire not useless, and give us a really long CD ability that stacks the deck with Balances and resets on raid wipes. As for job balance, take away expanded RR and I don't think you'll see many complaints; buffing everyone instead of picking a party member made the process less interesting anyway. You can even nerf the effects of our individual cards if we're still putting out too much rDPS.

But why the hell would you replace the entire card system? Even if the new system was something that people like... make a new ****ing healer job with that system. Don't take something that people enjoyed and get rid of it. AST was the only healer job in an MMO that I truly enjoyed, and now as far as I'm concerned, it's dead. Even if I could end up enjoying the new system, I still wouldn't play it, because I can't pull out my star globe without thinking about the great job that we lost.