As someone who hated AST in SB and who prefers the new card system

[Mikhaill]

Leave Balance in Divination or remove it completely is my suggestion.
How'd it would work is:
2/4/6 depending on what seals you get and Divination goes off by that.
Make seals random no matter the card.
Revert cards to the way they were, make Spire Atkdown/Defdown and call it a day.
Balance is literally the reason why AST is shat right now.

Shouldn't have listened the tiny percentage of raiders who made it seem like all we did was
draw for Balance. If balance is literally the revolving factor you really should just remove it
or try what I said above.

Divination is a nightmare to set up too. You press like 10 buttons just to get a stupid short buff with 3 min CD.
All that effort for that is insane. I finally stopped a level 76. I can't do it anymore.

[Brarry]

Why is there cooldown on divination when the cooldown is already on drawing the cards and gathering seals. Clunky unsatisfying, unrewarding, lazy implementation mess.

[Side-Eye]

I think what devs didn't understand was that IF the card system had simply been a set of utilities, AST would have been an OP class. It was the randomness that balanced the variety in the class's tool kit. As a result of this grave misperception, devs felt like they had to snip away power from every aspect of the class as a means of "balancing" it -- when the balance had sorta been there all along. And as a result of this swinging away with the nerf bat, the AST class has been left practically crippled... not just compared to other healers (esp WHM) but in broader comparison to all the other classes in the game.

[Wawachume]

All that effort for that is insane. I finally stopped a level 76. I can't do it anymore.

I'm going to be honest...the main reason I'm still leveling astrologian right now is that scholar and white mage are at 80 and I want to throw away all my leveling gear.

[Almostward]

I discarded my Astro globe after trying these new changes. Sad cause I mained it for so long.

At least the old card system was more in depth than this slop. Had to think of how to use a certain card and to royal road it or not. Now its draw....use....draw....use

Makes me sad really