Please Return Randomness to Astrologian's Card System

[CyberNettrix]

I used to love this job. I stopped enjoying it in EW and now even more so in DT. Most of the cards only get used just because they are there and not because they're needed. The support cards are all nonsense because you have other support abilities which are better or equal to the strength of the cards.

I really think they need to combine the healing part of the job with the card part of the job instead of them being two different unconnected systems. You see this with Whm and it works perfectly fine they use 3 flower heals and then they get a massive potency spell. Why they changed the Astro card system to not work with Divination is beyond me. Imo the best Astro has ever been was Shb and they shouldn't have changed the card system from there.

[Carighan]

Why they changed the Astro card system to not work with Divination is beyond me.

Because there was no upside. For balancing they had to assume Divination was at full strength, but that just meant you could "lose out" and not get a full power one. But you never "won", that was just the expected outcome. With the occassional random "you lose".

You're right of course in that it'd work better if the actual healing was done via the cards, which makes me think they could just remove 4 of our CD-based abilities, re-tune the raw power and secondary effects, and replace the #2 and #3 cards with those. Sure they'd all be effectively-120s-CDs, but if retuned well we'd actually get reduced hotbar bloat, and very strong extra CDs, plus the 4 filler cards are removed.