Ast Cards

[Supersnow845]

Yeah if you look at logs for people who utilized all of the uses of their cards properly the healing adds up. On an 8 minute fight with 5 uses of bole, 5 uses of spire, 5 ewers, it well over 239k total healing/mitigation. Thats more than multiple casts of aspected benefic. Thats more than 7 uses of horoscope helios. Thats more mitigation than 4+ uses of exaltation.

It's not the cards don't do any meaningful mitigation, it's that people don't know how to look at logs or use their cards correctly. In order to claim that the cards don't do anything you would have to concede that most of astro's toolkit does not do anything. Which is silly.

239k, that’s the healing done by like 1.5 sacred soils. It’s minuscule in the grand scheme of things and it’s being inflated simply because it’s a job mechanic so people are more likely to press it (ie if you need to shield one person and you have both spire and intersection available most people will generally press spire just because it’s a card so it’s a “core mechanic” even if it really isn’t actually needed over intersection

So a whole non damage aspect of the mechanic for a class is basically reduced to the healing and mitigation potential of a single sacred soil