Thread: Astrologian changes 6.0

Originally Posted by PangTong

For this design, I think either cards need more RNG protection/mitigation built in, or the buff for 3 unique seals should be changed to something less important. But really, I would rather see a design where different combinations of seals resulted in different, unique buffs, with no outcome being inherently better or worse. You could try to go for specific outcomes, but ultimately the result changes only your approach, instead of just being good or bad.

To your bit at the end, I'm not going to say it's a satisfying answer (I will say that I'm not sure I agree with it), but the logic of taking away the unique buffs was likely that if they are designed such that "with no outcome being inherently better or worse", they may as well be the same buff because they're less subject to potential min/maxing as they are now which could make certain comps preferable. The reason I've never liked this argument is because it also favors standardizing other jobs' buffs and that's also insanely boring but the problem is somewhat inherent to this game design as a whole. Similarly, while I agree with the comment above that they could actually make undraw useful to mitigate RNG, doing it to return a redraw would be a bit redundant unless undraw had a long timer attached. Another alternative they could do is make undraw shorten the timer on draw, similar to how hypercharge works with MCH's gauss OGCDs.

On the whole, AST's cards probably could have just stayed the same. I like the idea of astrodyne, I play on console and I've never had problems targeting, and I'm actually okay with the idea of Div not being 100%, but that's the difference between this game and how Corsair could operate- this game is designed for balance and the slower pace of FFXI made it okay to have the occasional bust if you had particularly poor luck.