Astro Card system is useless!

[Ezina]

After seeing the "adjustments" done to AST I will not be touching the job again. Last fun job was stripped away from so many of us it seems. I leveled it to 100 as I level everything for the DOW achievement, did a few expert dungeons with it and such, but I just didn't feel the magic in it anymore. Knowing that I will get the same cards every other draw made me lose all interest in the job especially with the pointless 1 min... I mean the 55 second CD on draw. The identity of AST has been cut up, chewed, and spat out, and the cards being completely weak aside from balance or spear there's hardly a use for them honestly. Not to mention spire being a shield card. I question why we even have shield abilities when Nocturnal Sect was removed from the game. Why are we taunted with such abilities? Just so we can be reminded of what we lost? I didn't agree with them removing Sect stances as it let all ASTs play the opposite role if they were in the same group. Now it's just a WHM with two cards able to buff melee and ranged jobs damage.

After seeing the CD for draw only being reduced by 5 seconds it made me lose all hope that this job will ever regain any sense of its identity back. I moved to just playing Sage which isn't the most fun I've had, but at least I can deal damage and heal, but I'll enjoy that while I can as I'm sure this team has plans to remove any identity the shield healers have next on their list.