New Astrologian Feels Awful

[Supersnow845]

If you think putting the card on the shield healer makes all the shields they make stronger, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. The JP text is much more clear about it but it only boosts healing received, not healing given.

That’s why you apply it to the person you are going to deploy off

[Azurarok]

they literally only changed the card system and gave 2 powers and an upgrade, really? the previous card system only gave out damage buffs, why are people never satisfied, they don't ask for improvements they just ask for change over and over again.

Folks have been asking to go back to SB's iteration and they've kept not doing that. Why should they be satisfied?? Even JP's getting a lot of folks asking for it now.

That’s why you apply it to the person you are going to deploy off

Ah my bad, that makes sense. I ran into an AST who was clearly thinking it was the other on roulettes recently and insisted on using it on themselves, so I've been a little wary of it.

[Alice_Rivers]

I've said in the AST cards are useless thread that I like the sound of SB AST from what I've heard and read about it and it does make current AST look bad, further I would advocate bringing back the card management aspects of it. But I do maintain the DT AST is better than EW AST, if only in that there are more cards and more options for how to approach things, I am never one to call more options and flexibility bad.

[thekavseklabs]

they literally only changed the card system and gave 2 powers and an upgrade, really? the previous card system only gave out damage buffs, why are people never satisfied, they don't ask for improvements they just ask for change over and over again.

Personally I just was very stressed by the button bloat and sad about the mild rng because that made it feel more like I was 'drawing cards'. I would be okay with these new cards if they still had that feeling. That's just me though ^^

[Zaytex]

It's a soulless job now. There's no flavour or substance to AST after the rework. It feels exactly like the other three healers except you have a unique healing button to press every 3 minutes.

Depressing to see how boring this job has become.

[Zolvolt]

Astro is in a really good place right now. One of the best iterations we've ever had. Anyone claiming the cards are useless has no idea how to do basic math.

[DougPersian]

I'm quite new to this game, so class strength means nothing to me (yet) but gameplay is king.

From that point of view, I used to love astrologian for what it was, but now it's static and boring. I liked the way it kept me busy with card draw and how it looked... both those things have changed for the worse, imo. Again, I'm not at endgame yet, but ast was my favourite healer. I'm leveling all jobs, which is why I'm so slow, but I think I'm going to park this one.

It also occured to me that the 10min queues I used to get as dps or tank are now 30 min for the same kind of queue, even though I'm gaining new instances left and right. Everything in random needs green. It's honestly a bit weird to me that the healing jobs obviously need some love even if just for the sake of the queues, but instead they make it more boring every change.

[bitofabother]

It's attracting a lot of people who don't have any desire to interact with ... the game itself, like at all. I was watching. Multiple cohealers have just sat around spamming Helios and not casting Malefic.

Fixing the drift, the second lightspeed charge, they feel great. I want to be clear, good job on those. AST feels playable at all based on the strength of the rest of its kit. But the cards are just pointless feeling, entirely, now.