Ast Cards

[Katish]

Well by that logic we got no basis to compare, granted. I think I get it now. Because you're right, we need neither those cards nor ED. And we absolutely do not need to optimize ED. As unlike EX1 which was promising when I first got into it, the savage raids follow the tired old paradigm of virtually 0 damage for 20-60 seconds and then a large hit you pour a few timers and oGCDs into. Meh.

But to be fair, that does not make the cards worse. If they would simply ramp up the damage intake of groups - in particular non-tank, single-target, randomly-targetted damage - massively then we would still need to know which of our heals are better or worse.

It does when it takes from a pre-existing job design, there is such thing as adding onto a job to adhere to a player type. But when you change a job to associate that player job with a new player type, the people on that job that liked it prior, now find it a weird zone. I still play AST, but it doesn't feel like the AST I am used to because my bar is basically barren. It's certainly a lot less busier and more similar to dare I say, whm, but is that a good thing? The cards system we had in Endwalker was better in regards to RNG, not amazing mind you, but better than DT imo bc you were busier. Now AST is more aligned to other healers and the malefic breakup is even less so, while it was replaced with heals we don't really need.