They can't figure out to make healers fun in general.

Honestly AST has to be one of the few jobs that gets a hard rework every launch/mid xpac. The devs hate the cards so much that I'm convinced they'll just delete them out of frustration.

I really don't understand what ppl's deal is with the cards. Stormblood and Shadowbringers had the best iterations of it tbh.

SB for the flavor and just the sheer dopamine hit of using Royal Road mechanics.

ShB had the best "compromise" IMO. Divination felt good to use because it was connected to the cards and was something you naturally proc'd just by making sure you drew cards.

AST's cards these days are so disjointed from the rest of the kit. It's sad. Cards are just a small part of the kit atp and they tried to give the old effects from SB back but it's just not the same without Royal Road.

Being able to pick between Spread, Enhanced, Extend was just so fun. In dungeons using Enhanced Bole just meant that your tank was unkillable in a wall to wall pull and that felt so good. Or giving a SAM/BLM Extended Arrow to go even faster.

I fear AST will only get worse from this point and that's just....so sad to me.