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

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I still don't think the new system is as bad as people say it is.
Choosing whether a card goes to ranged or melee is no less of a choice than determining who gets a Spear or an Arrow, there's still an optimal target for each with about the same effect.
Bole and Ewer were detrimental to the healer toolkit being RNG, having an additional mitigation skill, and a more effective Lucid Dreaming is far more preferable. And of course Spire was fodder.

That said, if you wanted to reintroduce more randomness, and remove the consistency of all cards being a Balance, while still making do with the Seals (because they're not going anywhere) then I'd suggest:

Balance/Spear/Arrow: All increase Crit
Bole/Ewer/Spire: All increase Speed

Similar sort of choices we have now, but their effects would be more markedly different and more satisfying to use.


Or if you want it to be more complex:

Balance/Bole: Increased DHit for Melee/Ranged
Spear/Spire: Increased Crit for Melee/Ranged
Arrow/Ewer: Increased Speed for Melee/Ranged

Then, Divination could combine the seals of each.
One of each would mean 5% DHit, Crit and Speed boosts.
But with depreciating effects for multiples, so one of each seal is 5%, two seals is 4% each for 8%, and three is 3% each for 9%.
So all Solar seals would mean a 9% DHit boost.
Two Solar and one Celestial would be 8% DHit + 5% Crit. Etc.

This way, your Divination should end up benefiting your party composition. If you have DPS who make use of Crit more than Speed, you'll redraw your Arrows and Ewers, which means you won't gain the Speed seals, and your Divination will be all DHit/Crit, and vice versa.

Then you have your Lord and Lady, those would be your flat Damage boosts.