What do you want in your AST?

[Brandedblade]

I never said it is a bad thing to benefit other players than yourself. What I was trying to say (and maybe Honey) is that jobs should be originally designed to use all of their skills to the fullest, even when soloing. Now that the job was changed considering feedback from other players other than healers, we can't use all of our skills outside a party anymore. It's not bad, it's just... weird.

Before 5.0X, all AST kit could be used for him/herself(although the optimal use would be for a party support), now you just waste the effect of some actions...

Regarding Lord/Lady, I prefer the old system. Considering we have less RNG now, we could draw more Lords easily and have that third damage skill AST is lacking (I would be one to spend Sleeve Draw on 3 Lords)...

I disagree, you can still use the cards on yourself to benefit yourself, cards only having one effect does not change that.

As far as minor arcana goes, that is true that we'd get more personal dps with more consistent Lords, but I can't help but imagine it would turn the cards into another aetherflow where optimizing means minimizing their intended use for the sake of chucking extra nukes. But I'm someone who prefers to give extra dps to others so it's just my opinion. I'd rather any pDPS increase be tied to what we have or focus on increasing our rDPS contribution.

[Roxas_Andrade]

I disagree, you can still use the cards on yourself to benefit yourself, cards only having one effect does not change that.

You can use cards on yourself, but not optimally. See the example of Sleeve Draw I said before.
The optimal way:
You use Draw, then Play on yourself. Draw goes on 30s CD.
You should wait 15s for the effect to wear off
Then you use Sleeve Draw, then Play.
You should wait 15s for the effect to wear off.
Draw is already ready and you still have 2 cards on your sleeve. You would waste at least 30s with Draw ready, doing nothing...

The old Sleeve Draw could be used in its entirety by the AST if he so desired. The new one depends on having a party to be optimal.
If we had old Lord/Lady, then we would be able to use this new SD completely, but we haven't... T-T