Change Undraw to Something Useful - like Swap!

[Rongway]

Just using the Sleeve Draw and Redraw functions we're already sacrificing several seconds of healing and DPS -- at least make the time spent worthwhile.

Carding people should take you 0 extra seconds because you can

Spell1 (Play) > Spell2 (Draw) > Spell3 (Play) > Spell4 (Sleeve Draw) > Spell5 (Play) > Spell6 (Play) > Spell7 (Play)

in the same time it takes to

Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell

AST's cast times are shorter than the GCD for specifically this purpose. You can lose about 0.25s if you try to card after a BeneficII, Helios, or Aspected Helios, but in most cases if the accumulation of 0.25s concerns you you can either Lightspeed or just delay your card for one GCD so that you're playing it after whatever shorter spell you cast next.

If each card is you divining which party member's time to shine it currently is, then having uneven compositions should make your draws uneven in favor of who you have. In a dungeon with a tank and two DRGs?

All those Spires are the cards telling you you should have brought a ranger or caster. Regardless of whether the party was premade or matched, that'd still be true.

[ItMe]

Draw shouldn't be unaffected by your party composition anyway. If each card is you divining which party member's time to shine it currently is, then having uneven compositions should make your draws uneven in favor of who you have. In a dungeon with a tank and two DRGs? Get slightly more melee cards, since 3/4 of the party is melee! Likewise for a standard 1-melee 3-ranged team in a trial, slightly more ranged for them!


It'd make one of the most frustrating and annoying bits of this card system a little less aggravating.

lol if they did that I'd ask my group homogenize before we go in.
No reason I should do extra juggling if I don't have to.
Sure, you can't get 100% ranged cards or melee cards because you're gonna have at least a tank and a healer, but w/e lol. Less redraws more me chucking out buffs.

[HyoMinPark]

undraw spread was good for when sleeve draw gave you garbage

Ah, the days when you could get Drawn Spire, Held Spire, and AOE Royal Road.

[Side-Eye]

Carding people should take you 0 extra seconds because you can

Spell1 (Play) > Spell2 (Draw) > Spell3 (Play) > Spell4 (Sleeve Draw) > Spell5 (Play) > Spell6 (Play) > Spell7 (Play)

in the same time it takes to

Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell > Spell

Cast time itself isn't the issue -- it's all the target changing between buff recipients, mobs, and tank or anyone needing a heal in the meantime.

[Rongway]

Cast time itself isn't the issue -- it's all the target changing between buff recipients, mobs, and tank or anyone needing a heal in the meantime.

Use mouseover targeting or cycle targets during the previous action's activation.

[ItMe]

Use mouseover targeting or cycle targets during the previous action's activation.

That's fine for mouse and keyboard, but the problem persists if you're using a controller.
I actually find healing pretty difficult for this exact reason.

[Rongway]

That's fine for mouse and keyboard, but the problem persists if you're using a controller.
I actually find healing pretty difficult for this exact reason.

Are you taking advantage of the default soft targeting? The tank is slot 2 or 4, so if you need to heal them while hard targeting the boss and spamming Malefic, you just need to press [down][down] (slot2) or [up][up] (slot4) during the 1.5s Malefic cast and you're ready to use an oGCD heal, after which your target automatically snaps back to the boss for uninterrupted attacking. If you need to use more than one action on the tank, [down][down][confirm] to hard target them is still easy to do during the 1.5s cast. In light party, DDs are just [up][up] or [down][down][down], still pressable during the 1.5s cast time so that you can card them as soon as your cast finishes, after which your target automatically snaps back to the boss again. Full party targeting definitely isn't as easy as it could be on controller, but the farthest target is five downs away, which can be done in the cast time still.

[Seraphor]

As a controller user, the setup I use for all healers is this:
All targetable DPS skills are macro'd with a <tt> (target of target) and at least one (usually the DoT) to also focus target the 'target of target'.
I lock-on/hard-target the tank.

Effectively this means I always have the tank targeted by default, I can see the enemy's HP, debuffs and cast bar, and when I need to target another player I can soft target them by hitting up/down on the d-pad, and as soon as I've used an ability on them, it instantly flicks back to the tank.
This is ideal for cards, as I can just go down-down-play, or up-play, etc. But it makes healing in general much easier, as I'm not constantly juggling targets, I never hard-target anyone other than the tank who is top priority.

[Side-Eye]

Carding people should take you 0 extra seconds because you can

Spell1 (Play) > Spell2 (Draw) > Spell3 (Play) > Spell4 (Sleeve Draw) > Spell5 (Play) > Spell6 (Play) > Spell7 (Play)

BTW, I don't think "zero seconds" means what you think it means.