Yet another AST rant (but a quick one)

[Mesarthim]

I'm not particularly happy about the "Seal fishing" I'm having to do. And for what? a 2% increase from bottom to top? And then there's seals not applying because apparently I'm not in combat or combust didn't tick soon enough due to no initial damage. The constant retargeting of party members, tanks, and the enemy, etc. I'm not even going to get into sleeve draw ~_~

Why did they build this annoying system all around a paltry 2% damage increase?

[Ceasaria]

This thread is just gold.
I feel the exact same way about how AST was played before.
We needed several hundred of hours of gameplay to learn and master the cards system (and further) through difficult contents.
AST gameplay was rich, emergent and very challenging, in one word : brillant. But I 'am not even sure SE was aware of this as the players with a few experience or they wouldn't have changed it.