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    Quote Originally Posted by Hash_Browns View Post
    The strategical input is knowing when to use your cards, and on who - not drawing your cards. Lining up a card with something like trick attack, or using cards/divination during burst phases is the key.
    Except... the supposed strategical play is no more an illusion than the old Card system. In fact, it's even worse. Pulling the second fastest E1S kill and fourteenth fastest on Titan. Let us look at how their Astro "strategized" at an optimal level.

    Starting with E1S. Of the twelve Melee cards drawn eleven of them went to the Samurai; one on the Dragoon. Of the six Range cards drawn, four went on the Black Mage; two on the Dancer.

    Now onto E4S. Of the sixteen Melee cards drawn, fifteen went to the Samurai; one on the Dragoon. Of the sixteen Range cards drawn, twelve went on the Black Mage with the remaining four the Bard.

    Excluding one instance outside the opener in both parses, the Bard and Dancer only received additional card(s) because the Black Mage already had one. This suggests the new card system actually has very little thought process baked into. You will almost always target the highest damage dealer between the Melee or Range, and this should be either Black Mage, Monk or Samurai. The only exceptions are in the opener due to certain jobs having a slow build up (Dragoon, for example, bursts almost immediately whereas Samurai takes quite a while to "charge" up) and if the preferred target already has card. Now... I will acknowledge this is partly due to how horrendously balanced a lot of jobs are at the moment. But it still highlights the new card system has illusion of choice just like the old one did.
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    Last edited by ForteNightshade; 08-24-2019 at 12:27 PM.
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