Goodbye Astro

[LariaKirin]

"Strong and balanced" will not make people want to play a class. SB MCH was "strong and balanced" but it was the least played class of the expansion because it felt like trash to play, sounds familiar doesnt it?

Two friends have switched to playing AST. I am now way more inclined to play AST. Yes, these are anecdotes, but none of us would have even considered it in 5.0. Are you willing to claim that the proportion of AST players will not increase at all in the following weeks?

What was your favorite phrase? Get over it? You really seem to be banking on this "it will happen. It will take time. My opinion is already true and everyone is wrong and slow to realize." Here's the thing, the old system wasn't as busted as you seem to be claiming it was. At worst spire needed an adjustment and heaven forbid maybe balance into something else. Now we effectively have one of the clunkiest openers and a lot of busywork for what seems to be little payoff. Patch 5.05 fixed sleeve draw feeling god awful as well as "most" healing potencies (Square seems to have missed CU) but the complaints aren't about how well the class heals.

AST being stronger now in both healing and DPS is not a matter of opinion. All you need to do is look at 5.0, then look at 5.05 and then be able to understand some numbers.

Do you think that AST being extremely weak in terms of healing and DPS had nothing to do with the low proportion of AST players?
Do you think that the cards and the opener are the only reason AST was not being played in 5.0?

If the answer to these is no, then you should be able to understand why I think the AST population will increase and why I'm optimistic about AST's future.

[Billythepancake]

Two friends have switched to playing AST. I am now way more inclined to play AST. Yes, these are anecdotes, but none of us would have even considered it in 5.0. Are you willing to claim that the proportion of AST players will not increase at all in the following weeks?



AST being stronger now in both healing and DPS is not a matter of opinion. All you need to do is look at 5.0, then look at 5.05 and then be able to understand some numbers.

Do you think that AST being extremely weak in terms of healing and DPS had nothing to do with the low proportion of AST players?
Do you think that the cards and the opener are the only reason AST was not being played in 5.0?

If the answer to these is no, then you should be able to understand why I think the AST population will increase and why I'm optimistic about AST's future.

It will increase, sure, but I dont believe for 1 second that it'll be nearly as popular as it was in SB. I have no doubt if AST stays the way it is, it'll be the MCH of this expac.

[Almostward]

Funny. You say you have 2 freinds who will now play astro and like it, but all over in the game I've seen a lot who hate it or think refuse to play it cause of how it feels. Guess what. It means nothing that some of your freinds will play it, nor when I find those many who dont because we dont know the statistics.

Astro still has a lot of issues, and I only hope SE will address these for us all.

[LariaKirin]

Funny. You say you have 2 freinds who will now play astro and like it, but all over in the game I've seen a lot who hate it or think refuse to play it cause of how it feels. Guess what. It means nothing that some of your freinds will play it, nor when I find those many who dont because we dont know the statistics.

Yes. I've literally said that these are anecdotes.