Please Return Randomness to Astrologian's Card System

[Supersnow845]

The problem with the randomness is that it bad RNG can render the Job much worse off... It's not like the difference between a crit or a normal hit... But the difference between drawing Lord of Crowns instead of Lady of Crowns, or drawing The Arrow instead of The Balance...

That’s why you have RNG protection in the form of in game mechanics

Take late SB AST, if you drew a bad card then you had a series of options

If you drew balance->great
If you drew spear->pretty good
If you drew ewer/spire->royal road it
If you drew ewer/spire and already have a royal road stocked->redraw it
If you drew a bole/arrow->redraw it
If you run out of redraws and still don’t have a good card->minor arcana it

With the amount of inbuilt protection you had you almost never had a final bad result and self correcting bad RNG with thematic in game elements is better than the devs just shaving off the ability to get bad RNG

[CaptainLagbeard]

Instead of trying to do protection from bad RNG, they could always just get rid of the bad results... Like while wasn't well received when everyone of the 6 major cards was just a DPS buff, it did mean you could always use all 6 of them regardless of what you drew into.

Now, they don't all NEED to just be "Increase damage dealt by x%", but you can have other flavors of increasing damage such as Crit, Direct Hit or Haste buffs... And Lady of Crowns being a nearly useless heal could very well replaced with just another attack like Lord of Crowns...

[Carighan]

Please don't. We just got a system that's both fun and useful, let's enjoy it for a while before we get it ruined again!

If anything, slightly buff the Play 3 cards, they feel less "meaty" than Play 1 and 2. And for the AoEs, make both significantly stronger but you can only play them after the other 3 cards are used up.

[Zolvolt]

Please don't. Have you guys looked at the astro numbers in savage? Astro is more popular than ever. Whm was finally dethroned as the most popular healer

[velswen]

Please don't. Have you guys looked at the astro numbers in savage? Astro is more popular than ever. Whm was finally dethroned as the most popular healer

You've failed to engage with the central point of my post which is...we already have 3 other healers that don't have RNG in them. Astro was the only one that had quick moment-to-moment decision making baked into its rotation. Players who enjoyed that in ANY of the previous 3 iterations of Astro now have nowhere to go.

[Kissune]

Please don't. Have you guys looked at the astro numbers in savage? Astro is more popular than ever. Whm was finally dethroned as the most popular healer

Finally dethroned white mage, eh?

AST has the highest DPS and the strongest healer kit next to SCH. And yet it's still the least popular despite being simpler and easier than ever. Maybe constantly changing the gameplay, dumbing it down, and trying to make it palatable for the kind of people who already think healer is a boring role isn't actually the play, and letting the job be unpopular but fun, challenging, and engaging instead of... still unpopular but kinda-sorta like a bootleg scholar with the worlds least interesting card effects and more generic ST tools than any single piece of content requires would provide more satisfaction to the people who actually want to play the job instead of the flavour-of-the-month meta pick? Fuck, I'd take heavensward AST over this. I'd rather be worthless but engaged than bored and meta.

[Zakuyia]

oh boy here we go again..... the forums never satisfied always complaining. I get ya now emet selch i see why you said what you said to us....

[velswen]

oh boy here we go again..... the forums never satisfied always complaining. I get ya now emet selch i see why you said what you said to us....

There's really no reason to be overdramatic. People are allowed to express frustration when a job they loved is removed from the game and they want those elements back.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

It would make sense why their numbers goes up in DT lol. They're appealing the players who wants to play WHM but stars aesthetic.

[OliviaLugria]

Please don't. We just got a system that's both fun and useful, let's enjoy it for a while before we get it ruined again!

I don't know what's fun or useful about these cards... already had 6 single target ogcd heals that the warrior didn't need, and now I have 4~ more. 2 dps cards that will go on the same people every time every two minutes.

People want this over Stormblood astro? Did you even play the job?