I don’t think the idea of GCD Cards is bad overall, it’s more just that it’s not logistically possible lol.

Like, I’d be happy if cards were like 4X-5X times the potency to account for lost dps, but I don’t think the devs would see it that way lol. Plus it’d be a nightmare to balance, since they’d have to account for the fact that dps is fairly variable, so they’d have to account for the contribution based on what it would add to each job individually (i.e, a Samurai would get more damage out of it than a Bard or Dancer).

It’s a fun idea but sadly wouldn’t work out. That said, I would like to see cards be more than just ‘something you slot between Malefic casts’. I feel like they should central to how it plays, even if it’s difficult for that concept to actually manifest in practice lol.