What do you want in your AST?

[Billythepancake]

Woah what?
There's less RNG punishment than the old system.
The difference in damage output between Balance and Arrow, was way bigger than the difference between a full 6% Divination and a 'failed 4% Divination. If you even managed to get a Balance/Spear/Arrow in your first two cards anyway...

The keyword is optimally,the entire point of new AST is that you're supposed to never get a bad card, no fishing, and it's supposed to be better for optimization, so why is the seal system here? Isn't fishing for seals to get that increase the exact same thing as fishing for balance? The only purpose of the seals is to frustrate you when you can't get 3 different ones within 4 GCDs so it can line up with the other buffs. And attempting that on a controller? Jesus Christ, that sounds dreadful.

[Allegor]

The keyword is optimally,the entire point of new AST is that you're supposed to never get a bad card, no fishing, and it's supposed to be better for optimization, so why is the seal system here? Isn't fishing for seals to get that increase the exact same thing as fishing for balance? The only purpose of the seals is to frustrate you when you can't get 3 different ones within 4 GCDs so it can line up with the other buffs. And attempting that on a controller? Jesus Christ, that sounds dreadful.

As you said, its there for the sake of being there. It's the illusion of complexity - Without the seals, it would be VERY apparent of how dull and boring the new system is, because you'd just Draw, throw, Draw, throw, Draw, throw, with the only time to use Redraw being when there's no melee/ranged, which personally is what annoys me more than the seals.