Question from a new player - can AST change back to what it was before ?

[Hatstand]

It can't go back to SB ast. Why? Tanks have way better defense and more importantly there's no tp. Half those old cards are useless now with the overall battle changes. To want old ast back means you also want tp and everything else they changed. It's not happening like you want it to.

If the tank doesn't need Bole anymore, it could be put on a dps who's struggling with aoes. Or it could be put on the tank anyway to allow the healer to spend a few extra gcds dpsing. The only card that wouldn't work now is spire, and honestly it's be fine if they just removed that one card. Or gave it something different to do. The hardest part about fixing the ast card system would be SE swallowing their pride and recognising that their "fix" made things worse.

[ErryK]

If the tank doesn't need Bole anymore, it could be put on a dps who's struggling with aoes.

No that DPS just needs to get good and actually dodge AoEs.

The hardest part about fixing the ast card system would be SE swallowing their pride and recognising that their "fix" made things worse.

Their fix works, it gets the job done, much better than the older cards do, as a matter of fact. The only real issue is now, you're pretty much done with cards once you have all three seals and Divination is on cooldown, you're just sitting and using Minor Arcana to get the better buffs from the cards. Personally, the cards are fine as they are, I can't see myself enjoying AST if cards return to their old form and Divination remains as is.

[Hatstand]

No that DPS just needs to get good and actually dodge AoEs.

So lag isn't a thing? Or undergeared tanks? In the old system, I loved that you could judge what you'd need based on the party that you had, and feed the other cards to the royal road. I used to take great satisfaction in putting aside a bole to use in a boss room when I knew that my tank wouldn't be able to cope with the incoming damage well. I can see how these uses would be lesser in raids, and how if you were trying to push for maximum use in a party that is already operating at peak performance it could get frustrating to draw the cards that in there seemed useless. Still, I can't help but think they could have found a solution for this that didn't involve stripping all decision making and planning out of the use of cards.

Their fix works, it gets the job done, much better than the older cards do, as a matter of fact. The only real issue is now, you're pretty much done with cards once you have all three seals and Divination is on cooldown, you're just sitting and using Minor Arcana to get the better buffs from the cards. Personally, the cards are fine as they are, I can't see myself enjoying AST if cards return to their old form and Divination remains as is.

You're entitled to like the new card system. It seems incredibly boring to me, but to each their own. And I'm sure there are plenty of other things that need fixing, but that doesn't mean we can't advocate for both fixes.

[TankHunter678]

Their fix works, it gets the job done, much better than the older cards do, as a matter of fact. The only real issue is now, you're pretty much done with cards once you have all three seals and Divination is on cooldown, you're just sitting and using Minor Arcana to get the better buffs from the cards. Personally, the cards are fine as they are, I can't see myself enjoying AST if cards return to their old form and Divination remains as is.

To be frank the fix does not work and the buffs are so butchered that they fail to compare to the old cards and fail to allow AST to actually be viable. Not to mention if we went back to the old system divination would not even exist anymore as we would have Royal Road to do the job of divination even better without a 3 min cooldown.

The cards are so bad now I am seeing them get hardly used anymore.

[ErryK]

So lag isn't a thing? Or undergeared tanks? In the old system, I loved that you could judge what you'd need based on the party that you had, and feed the other cards to the royal road. I used to take great satisfaction in putting aside a bole to use in a boss room when I knew that my tank wouldn't be able to cope with the incoming damage well.

That's no longer the healer's role, seeing as tanks have plenty of mitigation tools available to them in addition to the 20% reduction. I had more satisfaction in pulling an enhanced or expanded Balance, considering the rest of the cards were sub-optimal in any and every situation (perhaps barring Spear and Arrow in certain situations). And again, players need to stop being bad and actually gear themselves instead of having me babysit them because they couldn't be bothered to spend 20k or so Gil buying new gear with better defense.

As for saying the cards are worse than the previous set, I disagree, but we'll keep it at that as they seem to be a controversial topic, especially on these forums.

The cards are so bad now I am seeing them get hardly used anymore.

If you're seeing people not use the cards, I honestly think you're just playing with people who don't know how to play AST. You might want to suggest White Mage to them.

[Quizotic]

Personally, the cards are fine as they are, I can't see myself enjoying AST if cards return to their old form

and personally I can't see myself enjoy AST with the current card system

[ErryK]

and personally I can't see myself enjoy AST with the current card system

Thankfully there are two other healers you can "enjoy".

[Quizotic]

Thankfully there are two other healers you can "enjoy".

of which I don't enjoy, hench why I lvl'd AST in the first place

[ErryK]

Unfortunate.