Royal Road was a great and fun concept that added flavor to the AST class. The earlier royal road suffered because of individual cards being unbalanced, now that SE has normalized the cards let this mechanic be back. It's a great concept like undrawing cards and predicting the future for better benefits.

This works perfectly well with AST predicting the fates, the time dilation mechanic also need to brought back as it was one of the most strong things AST brought to the table.

Currently AST is just WHM with weaker heals and extra steps. One can just play WHM instead.

Please bring back the card management mechanic and make a gameplay style revolved around that. Please stop making every class same by filling a gauge and dishing out stuff.

Thanks and hope Dev team listens to the feedback and take these points.