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

[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.