Quote Originally Posted by Vitreus View Post
I don't understand why they didn't just nerf balance or buff the other cards. Even if you get bole or ewer when you didn't want to you could royal road them so it wasn't a waste.
The only nerf Balance really needed was a change in effect. Changing it to a True North effect would have still kept the card useful (for melee at least), and would have dropped AST from being mandatory in all parties. The only thing that kept it mandatory was the damage buff on Balance. Removing that buff would have balanced AST out quite a bit.