Quote Originally Posted by Faxmonkey View Post
AST was a bad design idea from the start. A healing class with less healing tools than the other two healers, but a big buffing component.
That logically meant that it would be insanely hard to balance the classes. If you need too much healing AST is gone, if AST can heal through people would want its buffs.
Turning all buffs into balance just makes the problem worse and the card system soooo much more boring.
They should have invested some brainpower in the AST redesign and should have put more healing options into the card system or something. 5.xx is just crappy.
Well the consistent approach to the minor arcana would have helped with that. Knowing that converting that bole/ewer/spire into minor arcana would produce a Lady of Crowns oGCD heal guaranteed would have been very nice. Horoscope could have also been a trait that made it so handing out cards gave a minor heal based on if it was Enhanced, Extended, or Expanded... or it could have been an ability that told you what your next 4 cards would be even if you redraw to enhance you ability to plan around the cards. A friend of mine even suggested a second spread slot to increase options.