Quote Originally Posted by Yakugami View Post
the majority of people who would want to play any game don't want to have 7 buttons on their bar dedicated to a system that doesn't add up enough rDPS to even bother bringing the class when the actual math is garbage, on top of the "also really bad" personal DPS
I'm unsure if you read this part of my post, but I call out the numbers stuff specifically. I do ask for increasing the contribution to rDPS since personal DPS is very low. I haven't attempted to do the math but would love to read the findings of those that have (if anyone has). Before I have that information, I'm hesitant to make a claim that cards are a system that don't add enough rDPS. My non-knowledge is inferior to the insider-knowledge the development team had while tweaking the numbers. I'm personally just currently not equipped with enough information to decide if I need to go grab a pitch-fork.

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Divination.
It feels very underwhelming in its current form. Much too long a cool down, and for very little benefit.

When I try to rationalize why it was designed the way it was, I find my best theory to be related to how all existing jobs’ raid support/utility was curbed in order to make room for Dancer. I don’t doubt that math was done to ensure that the DPS gain from Arcana and Divination put AST’s overall DPS contribution (personal + cards) at a comparable level to that of WHM and SCH (though perceptively it still feels lower) but I can’t shake the feeling that Divination just feels like a poorly thrown bone.

I’m hoping that numbers are coming back to the dev team to show that AST could use a helping hand in the rDPS department. If that’s the finding, I would very much prefer the buff to come in the form of making Divination better. I would suggest:
- Reduce the cool down to 150 seconds (currently 180).
- Increase the 3 Seal Type DPS boost to 8% (currently 6%).
- Reduce Sleeve Draw cool down to 150 seconds (currently 180).
With this arrangement, AST should still get to use Minor Arcana four times between each Divination, keeping it useful. I don't think the individual cards themselves need any buff to the DPS increase since the AST is drawing one every thirty seconds.
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