Astrologian: what is your understanding about it?

[Zolvolt]

Especially seeing people parade around their joy at the death of my main, knowing that I'll have to see these people talking about how much they love new AST and how it totally had so many problems with the job that they ran into in their once a day trials roulette bc none of them did anything harder than an alliance raid.

Saying stuff like this is just trying to invalidate that other people playing Ast see these problems with it. People happy about the changes (myself included) have played astro at a high level for a long time. Trying to diminish people like my experiences by saying we can't possibly think that the changes are good unless we don't do hard content is not really fair. I'd almost argue that playing ast at a high level should make it more obvious to you that these problems existed and needed to be addressed, but saying that isn't going to make you feel any better about things.

I don't understand how people can think these cards are in any way more interesting or fun or unique than EW cards without major critical thinking issues. Getting the same set of 4 cards every time and knowing exactly what they are and when to use them is not what I played AST for. I liked the busyness, the set-up and release style of healing, the on-the-fly thinking and the feeling of control as I piloted cards. Now I just have... the healing. I guess. Which won't even matter with how bloated the toolkit is now. It just sucks. I was expecting DT to make the job worse, not remove it entirely.

When you say stuff like this, It just tells me that something isn't clicking with you. I don't know if its that you don't understand the changes, or you are only looking at one aspect of changes. It almost feels to me that you are completely disregarding the card system existing in it's new state because you only like the old system? I'm not even sure. When you say you only have the healing left it just tells me you are ignoring a fully implemented card system. Idk your complaints about it makes me feel like a piece of the puzzle didn't make it into your puzzle box in terms of the ast changes. I also wonder if therse some sort of illusion in the current form of ast that makes you feel it is "on the fly" Ast cards are always the same right. They happen at the same time every single time in EW. There is a very small difference in who you give the cards to, right? And it's not like your players are randomly changing. you always know "if this card is melee it goes to x. if it is ranged it goes to y" When people say thats the critical thinking and on the fly they want I just can't take that seriously. It's so thoughtless.