How could you do this to AST?

[RyuDragnier]

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.

Well here's the thing, the AST playerbase complains about how the old cards were taken out. As it was pointed out by you, ALL THOSE CARDS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 3 WERE SITUATIONAL. You don't want situational, yet you want the old card system back? They changed it to the current one BECAUSE YOU PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT SITUATIONAL. But people want the old one back. Here's the thing... IF YOU WANT THE OLD CARD SYSTEM BACK, YOU'RE GOING TO GET SITUATIONAL CARDS. NOW EITHER YOU WANT THEM BACK, MEANING YOU WANT THE OLD SYSTEM, OR YOU DON'T, MEANING YOU WANT THE CURRENT SYSTEM. THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN!