Happy to admit I'm wring regarding AST changes

[LittleArrow]

[EDIT] Happy to admit I'm WRONG regarding AST changes UGH! First time I've misspelled a title, oh well, was going to happen some day lol

I've been playing AST a lot since the expac came out (I always have 1 tank / 1 dps / 1 healer for adventurer in need). I played AST when it came out in Heavensward and since then it's my main healer.

Just getting the TL: DR out of the way: I'm really enjoying having the other cards and I like the new system.

It gives me a layer of complexity with the extra cards and frees up my time to DPS more. I feel far more like a card wielding astrologian than I have since Heavensward. It can be improved, but I really like this system and I hope they keep it going forward.

I actually loved the changes they made with the DPS only cards in ShB, because those were the only useful cards I had back then. I hated it when I didn't get Balance and Arrow / Spear were such a far second place. The other cards, well I thought they were useless and just tossed them out whenever.

However, with bigger pulls, new tanks / players under geared - it's been a blast to toss out cards like a Yugioh player! I find the other cards very useful and I don't mind at all the loss of the random feature so far.

I was very very critical of this new change and thought all you nerds crying about losing those lame cards were crazy, but I gotta say - I'm really happy they brought them back, and in this case, I was definitely wrong about discounting the other cards as much as I did.

I only have 2 complaints - 1. The card draw animation is so lame imo. I wish it incorporated the three cards in the hand more or even a fun drawing of the 3 cards like /bstance does. Throwing out the arm, grabbing the cards for half a second, then throwing the hand out in front looks so stupid to me lol. 2. I do miss the seals system. I understand it's been distributed throughout the class and that's fine, but I really liked feeling rewarded for doing a good job with my cards. Yes, the reward now is I get to take better care of my team when I use the cards well, but still I wish there was like an ultra card I got after drawing both sets.

All in all, I really enjoy this design. I'm actually using all of my cards instead of hoarding them and forgetting them (looking at you Lady card). Great change so far!

[LittleArrow]

I just wanted to add, since the random feature has been taken from AST, please add Corsair. Corsair was my main in FFXI, and even though we have MCH and AST - they still don't fill that incredibly fun role that Corsair did.

The 21 blackjack card game probably wouldn't work or would have to be extremely retooled since AST does have the card buffing mechanic, but the dice game and all the different pistol shots could still fit in even with MCH. I've noticed over the years MCH has been moving more and more away from the gunplay aspect of their class and more into their machine / tinkering. I think that's a great path forward and would be wonderful to open up a position for double pistol / pistol and sword for Corsair.

I know it's a tall order, but I truly hope with these changes open the door for Corsair to eventually be implemented. If I have to give up my random rolls on AST, at least let me give it up for Corsair.