Thread: Everything wrong with 5.3 AST sleeve draw [Translated JP duplicate thread]

So, what should be done?

A quick dirty fix could look like:
- Simply reverting to 5.2
- Bring back 5.2 Sleeve as a separate skill with a shared cooldown, and multiply the effect of 5.3 Sleeve by 2~2.5x (*1).

A more fundamental change could look like reverting to 5.2 Sleeve and:
- Allow players to randomly distribute three cards by hitting Sleeve Draw again
- Allow players to toggle an auto random-cardplay mode synonymous to old Arcanist Sic

The basic idea here is to maintain the number of cards available and allow the player to choose how many decisions they want to make. Changes like these will be a major QoL improvement for players that find cardplay difficult while preserving the optimization experience for higher level players.

I gave just a few example potential solutions, but the point I want to stress most through this thread is that there are many possible methods to improve QoL without hurting the optimization experience. It is my hope that for future adjustments you pay more attention to views of players that enjoy optimizing battle, and to not treat QoL and complexity like a tradeoff but rather concepts that can coexist.


(*1) My personal take is, simply reverting to 5.2 is best. I suggested shared cooldowns here to keep both versions because I understand that this revamp came from a decision that QoL improvement was needed. Effect multiplication for 5.3 Sleeve is there to alleviate the difference of DPS contribution between the two versions, as such a large difference may pressure players that prefer the new version to unwillingly use the other.

P.S. If nerfing AST DPS contribution was part of the decision-making process for this revamp, then to me simply nerfing Malefic 4 seems to be most appropriate for reasons already given.