AST Minor Arcana need to be changed back!

[Billythepancake]

If the saving grace of the old system was that you only really had one choice (Expand and, only a bit less obligatory, Balance)... is that not at least as flawed a system?

Take any way of balancing the old system so it wasn't just Expanded-Balance/Arrow/Spear or bust and you have the same exact problem.

And spare the discussion this "especially on controller" misrepresentation. M&KB is scarcely if at all affected. It is quite purely a controller problem.

It is not, however, a controller problem unique to AST cards. Literally any other need to rapidly target an ally other than your target or target, single focus target, or an ally immediately above or below your last on the party list runs into this same issue on controllers. When my healers in a 24-man raid have both gotten themselves killed by standing in a one-shot mechanic and suddenly my party members and I are getting chain-oGCD-healed (tetra-bene-[gap]-Asylum in rapid fire, each onto the appropriate targets) to keep us over HP margins, I can be almost absolutely certain that supporting alliance healer is using a mouse and keyboard.

XIV controller support is not good, let alone on par with M&KB. It's just been marginally acceptable because so much of healing has been purposely held back into predictable intervals on predictable targets in order to keep controller-users from noticing its otherwise glaring issues. And given how much could be done to improve controller usage, our attention should be on that, rather than just maintaining, be it by fight design or job mechanics, low demands of our controls as to obfuscate the difference.

Even if you chose to single card in the old system it was not as cumbersome as this one. There 2 biggest offenders are sleeve draw and the seals. In the old system if you chose to single target, it was only once every thirty seconds, and you had time to figure out who to give it to. Because of the seal system, and because of sleeve draw, if you want to get divination out on time you have to constantly swap targets. Even on keyboard and mouse I hate it because it almost feels like mouse over is required and macros in this game are awful.