How is new AST feeling?

[Laphicet]

Cant say, I toss my star globe into my glam dresser and moved on to sage which am enjoying with 0 complaints, same boring cards with only lady/crown being changed back to stormblood effects with aoe instead is alright but that was not enough + removal of noct which idc for no more cause sage such a better noct ast . Maybe if the cards get some flavor again like old stormblood one maybe one day ill pick up ast again.

Guess I'm in the same boat as this one, though I don't consider Sage to be flawless. But as far as AST goes I'm dropping it for good save for leveling it to 90 at some point during this expac. The flavor is gone and the lore is shattered further, and Lord/Lady does nothing to restore it.

AST would probably be a little better if they swapped the DPS buff and SpS buff parts of astrodyne, though. DPS for two seals and speed for 3 seals. But even then this mechanic is a source of frustation because they significantly took away from your tools you had to deal with and shape the RNG.

As for the people in the thread shitting on SB AST cuz "muh deeps" over job flavor and lore, it's people like you that got us in this shit situation in the first place and I hope you realize that. And you could've easily fixed that by changing Balance to DhiT, Spire to HP regen, and adding a tiny flat dps buff to all the cards alongside the unique effects while still keeping RR system. But no, we have to toss the baby out with the bathwater cuz "muh deeps" and "muh RNG" despite having the tools to mitigate it even back in SB and the ability to salvage bad cards with lord/lady.