Astro Card system is useless!

[Rydia_Misuto]

Stormblood AST was best AST. Nuff said.

No one has ever been more correct than you. What makes Astro great is RNG. They're not giving us Corsair, they're not giving us Gambler, Astro was the closest I could have. It had buffs that felt impactful and meaningful (what is this '6% every 2 minutes' nonsense?), it had two different stances so you were always beneficial to have, it had a wonderful card management minigame, each card had a different purpose and there were reasons to want some over others, and eating cards to buff the next card was excellent. There has never been anything that hits as high a high as sleeving a balance, burning an enhance card, and then drawing *another balance* and blasting both DPS in a dungeon with a giant power spike during their DPS rotations. Getting to feel relevant, having cards be a HUGE deal. Not some minor meaningless damage buff.

I will never forget that when I complained about the murder that they committed in Shadowbringers, the official response was "We hear you, you don't like AST now, so we made it that if you mess up instead of only a 2% buff it's now a 3% buff. You're welcome! That's what you wanted, right? "

Give me random card draws and make cards matter so I actually care what card I get. Give me limited tools to manipulate RNG. The change to prevent you drawing the same card again after shuffle was as far as it needed to go.

[KanataNanaya]

Give me random card draws and make cards matter so I actually care what card I get. Give me limited tools to manipulate RNG. The change to prevent you drawing the same card again after shuffle was as far as it needed to go.

They were sooooo goddamn close with perfection.

At the end of SB there was like at least 3-4 failsafe to make good use of any Draw.

Draw > Bad? Royal Road > Still Bad?: Redraw x2 stack > Still bad? Minor Arcana = almost always good(Lord = good, Lady = sometimes good)

If anything, They coulda just let people choose what they want for minor arcana. Target a mob? DPS, target a teammate/nothing? Heal, bam. every single card will get used effectively.