Quote Originally Posted by Azbroolah View Post
This is true to an extent, but only because the other cards were really just not very good most of the time. Balance and Spear (after it was changed to crit) were just straight-up better than the other choices. Spire was basically a dead draw (Royal Road/Minor Arcana fodder only), Ewer was only very situationally useful (making it also Royal Road/Minor Arcana fodder), Bole was not possible to intelligently play around (because if you need mitigation you need it on-demand, not RNG), and Arrow was actively bad for most classes other than BLM because it resulted in misaligned burst windows. AST players weren't Balance/Spear fishing because of "elitism" (whatever that means), but because it was the only choice that made sense 99% of the time.
Ewer wasn't a bad card. It just didn't work on the jobs that could have used it..

Had no affect on blackmages in astral stance for example. Or even darks if I recall. That's a card that could potentially have had a nice impact on a blm letting them squeeze out an extra fire 4 and getting some extra oomph with that extra mp. Something similar with drks. I cant remember what exactly all I remember is being told my ewers didn't work on dark knights when I tried.

Bole had the same problem all defensive stuff has in that defence is a joke everything is deliberately
so incredibly forgiving that it makes defence useless.

Spire could have been decent but again resource management was almost a non issue at that point with all the changes they'd made you literally never ran out of tp outside of aoe..