Thread: AST Suggestion Thread 5.05

Originally Posted by MintnHoney

Squeen's design of how to use these skills is very widely open to interpretation.
Because they designed Sleeve Draw to grant 3 draws of Major Arcana, the up-front idea is to use it to power Divination and use any subsequent draws for lady/lords. This is further supported by their decision to shorten the potency gaps between seal combinations, where it can be interpreted that they want us to not care about which seals we get, and just use the cards we get.

Your idea works too, of course.

How players treat the cards will influence how well they perform. Not that that means that the design is actually good, but Squeen was very up front about how they felt about their design choices coming into this expansion.

The reason why that interpretation doesn't work is because you can draw and gather seals after the initial pull and the cooldowns are different. if Div is 120, and Sleeve is 180. the only time where you can use them together in the way you're thinking is the Pull, and 6mins into the fight

Sleeve is 0, 3, 6, 9 in a 10min fight but you can also do 0, 4, 8 in a sub 9 min fight by delaying them a minute at the 3 and 7 min mark
Div is 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 consistently in every fight which very rare exceptions.

So this means you're required to draw and fill Div manually for the 2, 4, and 8 min mark in the first example, or the and the 2, 6 mark in the 2nd example assuming you're not playing the job wrong. You can Draw 2 times a Min and thats giving you 3 Draw inbetween each Divination at the 30, 60, 90 marks between each divination.

There is no way SE intended for you to use Sleeve Draw for Divination anytime after the opener as the 2 skills only ever line up every 6 mins and or at the 4 and 8 min mark if you're delaying them do to the expected kill time. SE wants you to fill the seals manually after the opener and sleeve draw is supposed to compliment that with Minor Arcana