Thread: AST Adjustments 6.2

Remove Minor Arcana/Crown Play. I don't mind the idea of AST having a "coin flip" ability, but the flavor and effect of this is terrible for how little it does. The idea that we can draw *fewer* minor arcana cards than major arcana cards has always been incredibly dumb.

I also suspect that based on the PvP card abilities, that over the years they have had more time to think through the possibility space of card abilities. So there is a small chance they might revamp cards.

Ideally, remove seals as well. Or remove Monk's Solar/Lunar Nadi. It mildly bothers me that the devs reuse motifs when they generally don't need to.

I took a peek at ast pvp cards and laugh as I see the balance and ewer is old stormblood effects minus spire which is still good that it increase limit gauge. It seem under the quiet SE admits that storm blood cards was the best even if some was nitche so jist give us back for pve already!! lol

I'm guessing it won't be major/minor arcana as theres nothing busy about that.

The only thing busy about AST is weaving the targetting of a party member and playing on them.

We literally do that as often as casting combust. If theres anything to be considered "busy" about AST what else could it possibly mean?

Originally Posted by DanielNegreanu_Adamantoise

I'm guessing it won't be major/minor arcana as theres nothing busy about that.

The only thing busy about AST is weaving the targetting of a party member and playing on them.

We literally do that as often as casting combust. If theres anything to be considered "busy" about AST what else could it possibly mean?

the burst windows? theyre like 6 double weaves in a row and they hog up all the uses of lightspeed. i really disliked the trick attack change because before i could give an extra card at the 1 minute mark to someone to make the reopener a bit easier on myself without it being too big of a dps loss, but now im pretty much obligated to save all 3 cards for the 2 min burst. i really dislike draw having charges because of this side-effect.

and lightspeed could use a cd reduction + charges since divination hoards up all the uses anyways

Yeah but the targetting too, if you factor that in, can be very busy.
Personally I have macro keys that auto-target last enemy before casting dot/nuke (not ingame macros), and have 8 play macros that cast on party slots without targetting them.
IF someone were to play ast without any assistance, it can be very very busy when factoring in manual targetting, just looking at actions user has to perform.

That’s what I mean by draw/play being what is truly busy

Nuke
Draw
Look at card
Nuke
Target correct dps
Play
Target last enemy
Nuke

AST had highest rdps of the healers in 5.x iirc

Yeah that def needs fixing, sch and ast should be ahead in rdps, behind in personal
Do you think that is possibly due to act development catching up with log/ability changes at the beginning of a new expansion?