How could you do this to AST?

[ForteNightshade]

And that's why Royal Road will still not exist. You redraw or use the card. And for the record, DH and Crit buffs are ONLY damage buffs if you actually DH or crit. If you don't, it wasn't a damage increase. Because of people constantly trying to find Balance instead of using what they had, we ended up with what we got this expansion. By removing the hard damage increase on Balance and instead giving it to Minor Arcana (albeit with a cooldown), you fix the problem because anything can be a damage increase once a minute. Meaning you have to keep seals going for Divination, or just sit on a card for Minor Arcana that could have been used another way.

Now tell me, if you got a Solar, Lunar, and Celestial seal already, Divination and Minor Arcana are on cooldown for 30s, and Sleeve Draw is on cooldown for 60s...are you going to use another Celestial seal for a crit/dh buff that would result in a damage loss on Divination's buff due to 2 Celestial seals? Are you going to hold onto the card and just use it with Minor Arcana? Or are you going to attempt to reshuffle it to another Solar card in the hopes you get some use out of it?

Your solution is trading consistent, albeit underwhelming, card effects for completely situational ones. Changing the effects as you described while keeping the seal system means Astro's will be forced to play new Balance/Bole in scenarios where they accomplish nothing. Not only does Bloodbath barely see use, it's already on 90s for the jobs that have it. The new effect would be of minimal to near non-existent benefit due to how infrequent scenarios are where an AoE heal wouldn't already cover outgoing damage. In the event an individual DPS is targeted, healers still have a myriad of reliable ways to heal that isn't a random card effect. Put another way, you aren't going to plan around something that won't be available without an Astro present. This was entirely what people criticised about Bole. While useful, it's lack of reliability meant it couldn't be planned around.