Please buff AST

[ForsakenRoe]

Stormblood ast did all this and people complain and just wanted balance balance balance

Stormblood AST also allowed the card effects to be spread to the party, which is more the reason that 'Balance > all' became a thing. If the cards were single target only (as they are now) and the 'aoe party buff' is a static predictable thing (as with Divination) then it's a lot easier to tune the relative strength of things. Beyond that though, SB AST did not have Bole granting damage via reflecting damage, Ewer granting damage via a 'spell reverberation' effect to cause multistrikes, and while Arrow did increase dps (by increasing GCD speed), it would screw everyone's alignment now. Rather than make everything Balance because 'thats all people wanted', I would rather have made everything be a competitor in output to Balance. If Balance was such an issue that nothing can approach it's dominance, then nerf it to 'manageable' levels and rebalance other parts of the kit to compensate. The path they took to 'balance the card system' was both pathetic in terms of lore, in terms of gameplay ramifications, and the best part is, you've still got to wipe runs if you're going for a 100, because oops they made it so you can have bad luck with Minor Arcana, and get Lady of Crowns too much. Or just crit variance in general. Note that I put X% or X potency for every proposed effect. If it turns out that the effect of Arrow at 100% increased AA speed is not enough to match 10% increased damage from Balance, then buff the Arrow effect to 120%, or 150%, etc until it IS balanced. This is the job the devs are quite literally being paid for, and taking the easy way out with 'just make all the effects of the RNG class be the same, so it's easier to balance' is pretty sad

TLDR SB AST did not do 'all this'