EW AST Redraw needs improvement

[Liam_Harper]

[+1 or +2%] isn't something I would call a "decent reward."

I'm not sure how you can say 1-2% raid dps isn't a decent reward, but 100 potency and some mana regen that used to be tied to Play is. That's all Astrodyne is. They took the 8% mana per card, shaved 3% off, tied it to an additional button, then put a pretend effect for 2 and 3 Seal and people lap it up and claim it's great.
It's not about dps at all, it's the fact that you have an extra button to do something you used to do passively.

I'm not arguing the ShB system was fun. Of course it was boring. But it was functional and I don't enjoy pressing random buttons that don't do anything for the sake of pressing buttons.
I don't think they should revert back to ShB because it's good. I think they should revert to it because the current system doesn't work and at least the ShB cards will do the job without needing a ton of buttons until they come up with something decent.

I disagree. They had designed themselves into a very boring dead-end, removing the the player's agency to manipulate their kit, ability to prioritize specific needs, and created a rather braindead experience in exchange for forced consistency across the playerbase.

I really don't get this either when this is precisely the problem with Astrodyne and MA. You have no ability to manipulate your kit. Doesn't matter if you Redraw, you'll get a 2 seal most of the time. Doesn't matter if you get 3 seal or 1 seal, it's just mana regen on a stick. Doesn't matter if you want a Lady for heal or a Lord for add phase, you have no choice and no way to create a choice.

I see players who talk about how they loved old AST, adapting to situations, extending buffs and so on and wonder how they're happy with the rubbish we've been handed. It's like SE threw them a tiny scrap of RNG and they leapt on it. It could be so much more interesting, without bloat or bad RNG, yet the handful of remaining AST players (AST is currently the least popular healer by a large margin) seem to have given up and will just settle for anything now.