Endwalker AST has too many buttons, and other issues

[HyoMinPark]

MA and Crown Play are different buttons because that allows you to draw a card and start the cooldown of MA. You don't need two different buttons to get that effect, but simply merging them together wouldn't make it possible.

I think this is incorrect. The developers have proven that they can consolidate while also immediately triggering the cooldown of an ability—and on AST, no less. The second you place Earthly Star, its button changes into Stellar Detonation. Regardless of when you detonate it, if you do it manually or let it go off naturally, the cooldown has already been ticking down for the next Star usage. It’s not like HW or SB Draw where holding a card delayed Draw’s cooldown reset.

Minor Arcana could absolutely be programmed the same way as Earthly Star.


Re: Cure I/Benefic I having niche usages—

All of the base single-target heals (Cure I, Benefic I, Physick, and Diagnosis) stop being useful around level 40—a bit higher for WHM due to their poor MP economy pre-Assize and Solace, but you really shouldn’t be using Cure I beyond level 50 at the very latest. It is impossible to maintain a tank in leveling dungeons beyond ARR with Cure I spam. The potency simply cannot keep up with the incoming damage the tank is eating. Even for SGE you spam Eukrasian Diagnosis over regular Diagnosis (if you’re ever in a horrible situation where you have to resort to that); Diagnosis is way too weak to sustain.