Goodbye Astro

[whiskeybravo]

There would not have been another group to speak of f they hadn't changed them. People like me who only took up AST because of the card changes would have continued to ignore AST in ShB were it not for the change.

Kinda seems like people who like the new card changes might've felt shafted, you know, with the whole "this is a healer rework expansion" aspect of things - if they left the crummy old card system in place there certainly would be people questioning it. My comment was meant to provide that bit of perspective.

I don't really have a dog in this race one way or the other, my main experience with AST is only raiding along side them, but from an outsiders perspective the changes make more sense than not. I feel a little bit with both sides, but the reality is most people only wanted DPS cards. To say the weaker cards were useful to use for fodder is just a rationalization to feel better about a bad design.

That being said, there seem to be core playability issues with AST moreso than what the cards do or don't do anymore. So the focus should be more on making the class enjoyable to play in action rather than the relatively unimportant aspect of the cards themselves.