Quote Originally Posted by Wuglug View Post
To be fair if it takes to to have a few abilities removed like time dialation, etc just to have the cards not all do literally the exact same thing i'd gladly drop them for it. It too will be missed, but at least there will be a reason to actually enjoy what you draw, which I think is the main reason why most play it (the cards that is).
Except in this case it wasn't one or the other, just... both or neither. 'Cus that makes sense? Somehow?

Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
I don’t think the old Bole and Ewer would work well in any kind of ‘hybrid system’. In fact even before any changes were revealed, many people were suggesting making all the cards DPS cards to give some kind of stability to the system.
That'd literally only require Royal Road being balanced. As it stood, Enhanced was useless and Extended was useless if you had a good Spread ready to go or a second AST, while Extended was simply up to twice as good as Extended and four times as good as Enhanced. That's disgustingly imbalanced.

Adding to that the cards themselves being balanced and it'd really only be icing on the cake. Just being able to have multiple cards up at a time, Enhanced being a true 200% effectiveness, and Extended splitting both effectiveness and duration as the number of affected targets increased (making it only superior to Enhanced or Extended just before Collective Unconscious's duration extension, while Enhanced is best before Dilation and Extended for multiplicative stacking) would have been technically sufficient to make Bole and Ewer desirable, if not in their own right.

Heck, kill off Lucid Dreaming in favor of greater base MP regen, give Spire Ewer's old %MP cost reduction effect, and make all jobs actually use resources and voila! Bole's nearly overtuned for dungeon-mass-AoE and good for RR, Spire's (disgustingly) powerful before AoE heals and on BLM during Flare rotations ("Want an Umbral Heart atop your Umbral Heart?"), and Ewer's now a lifesaver for overextended SCHs and WHMs who can't manage Thin Air.