Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Wasn’t suggesting to homogenize the cards—I hate the new system as much as most ASTs do and all cards being Baby Balances.

You don’t need to tell me that people enjoyed using at least Bole and Ewer back in the day. I’ve played AST since HW and know that. I was one of them: not afraid to use a Ewer on myself—or slot it in my Spread if I had a bad party that was draining my mana—or Enhance a Bole for a tank to use during a mass dungeon pull so I could DPS. The issue is less that people don’t want to use them but that damage is always the better option when you have offensive and defensive options competing with one another. It would be preferable to eliminate that and add more credence to the offensive/defensive split in the major arcana.

Spire has always been borderline useless, though. Especially in SB when all DPS that used TP had access to Invigorate, Goad was a role skill for melee, and ranged all had Tactician. Outside of extreme AOE situations, TP management wasn’t really a thing. It hasn’t been a thing since HW—which was why they did away with it in ShB.



One of the major cited failings of the previous system was that damage cards always trumped utility cards. They were always in competition with each other. Give two different Spreads—one for offensive cards, and one for defensive/utility cards—and there is no longer a competition. That was my suggestion to improve your proposed system, but you seem to have not given it any thought.

I feel like you skimmed over what I wrote without really reading it, based on this reply. Please go back and reread it.
preach, I just want to say exactly how you feel. I hate the new AST system in final fantasy 14, it removes all the complexity that AST had and every card is a baby balance which I hate so very much...I miss lady being a healing card and Lord being damage card. AST is not the job I fell in love with and I wish I can play the AST with the old card system, even if it's all the cards are just a 1% boost. AST is not the job I fell in love with anymore and FFXIV is slowly pushing me away with it's homogenized and simplistic job designs they are adding in every expansion from storm blood