Solution to Astrologian problem

[BabyYoda]

I would like to address several problems that I faced with this job and my solution to card system.

issues with the job:

1. card system DT change kills it by giving non DPS buffs
2. buffs doesn't feel impactful
3. busyness of the job compared to jobs in the same role

solution:

• remove any kind of non DPS cards and keep cards DPS only
• other system should be focus on healing part only.. no DPS buttons every 2 min
• Keep cards as GCD that give high potencies
• below my solution to keep card system better

Overview:
Keeping card system focus on DPS only while other kit is healing.
Cards should be more impactful give much more percentage while keeping it as GCD and make the job less busy.


Card system:
Completely rework the cards.
reason: adding bonus to jobs which is hard casters like BLM and PCT. while adding affect to also jobs that are faster like VPR and NIN

cards:

• Balance: Buff target by adding damage bonus to next GCD by 100P for next 5 GCD for 20s.
• Arrow: Buff target by adding damage bonus to next 2 oGCD by 150P and next 4 GCD by 50P for 20s.
• Spear: Buff target by adding extra 30% bonus damage to crit attacks for 20s.
• Spire: Buff target Crit percentage by 15% for 20s.

Each 30 sec will allow you to draw 2 cards,
first card will be randomize between balance/arrow
second card will be randomize between spear/spire

Other kit changes reasons:
keep the job fantasy buffing self healing rather than using oGCD as buff to allies

Other Kit changes:

• Exaltation
• Celestial Intersection
• Neutral Sect

will be used as impowering skills to next Healing GCD.

it will empower these spells:

• Aspected Benefic
• Helios Conjunction

Light speed: allow to cast while moving.

note:
numbers are not accurate

[PercibelTheren]

Hard disagree. Busy is what I liked about AST. Making the cards GCD would make it even more boring and sluggish.

[BabyYoda]

Hard disagree. Busy is what I liked about AST. Making the cards GCD would make it even more boring and sluggish.

from my understanding you prefer spamming 1 button full fight rather than using cards as GCD?

[PercibelTheren]

from my understanding you prefer spamming 1 button full fight rather than using cards as GCD?

I prefer the cards being an OGCD with a short cooldown so I have something to manage between endless GCDs. The GCD in this game is LONG, making something like cards into GCDs would make the job even slower. The sluggishness was why I preferred Ast to White Mage, before they decided to gut it in Dawntrail.

[LynxDubh]

Cards on the OGCD is what makes AST fun. It’s the only healer where the OGCD kit actually makes up for the nuke spam. I just want more on the fly decision making for AST with its cards like in SB.

[Nero-Voidstails]

the card would be great of the games wasn't focusing a 2 minutes burst playstyle not gonna lie and I think the game focus way to much into that 2 minutes over a long and harder fight

[BabyYoda]

the card would be great of the games wasn't focusing a 2 minutes burst playstyle not gonna lie and I think the game focus way to much into that 2 minutes over a long and harder fight

Focusing on 2 min meta will empower jobs that are designed for that.. jobs like BLM and RDM suffers from that

I believe my AST idea will fix most of its issues having RNG focused job and keep the fantasy of buffing self and party member

[Sylvain]

Cards blabla

We went with litterally 2 expansion worth of cards only doing a small dps buff and the result was 1000 posts a year of "cards are boring bring back SB variety".

One way or another some people won't be happy.
I don't feel like the old system was really good... having 6 cards with the same 2 buffs (and boy was it a big variation... range vs melee...).

The issue with cards as gcd would be that if they compensate for the dps loss of the gcd through sheer buff, then AST becomes excessively reliant on party comp.

If cards becomes what you proposed,
balance giving 500p over 5 actions then... timing isn't really needed and it excessively favors job with high personal buff like BLM which would gain 85% more damage from the card on its fire spells.
Arrow kind of the same but for job with great personal buff like DRG or maybe even a SCH.
Spear would be ridiculous on any job with guaranteed crit.
Spire ironically most likely the most balanced cards.
What about Bole and Ewer?

Also... you wanna reduce business but make us draw 2 cards every 30s ?
That's basically putting a player under card buff half the time.
And since it's not really a % buff they can be applied to anyone with the same effect during down time. And what about 2min windows? hold + redraw so 4 cards ? sounds not busy at all.

And regarding business this is what many AST players enjoy...

Exaltation
Celestial Intersection
Neutral Sect

Weird that Neutral Sect is here considering it's already doing this, (altough more than 1). So you basically wanna gut AST from these 2 tools? You realize that the goal is to never do a gcd heal.

[Valence]

The cards not being interchangeable damage buffs but doing a lot of other things was the kind of flavor people missed from HW/SB AST, and that SE tried reintroducing in DT but failed miserably with because the current system and the current healer model don't care at all about anything that's not damage. Quite a conundrum.

[Supersnow845]

The cards not being interchangeable damage buffs but doing a lot of other things was the kind of flavor people missed from HW/SB AST, and that SE tried reintroducing in DT but failed miserably with because the current system and the current healer model don't care at all about anything that's not damage. Quite a conundrum.

People liked that you had to play to whatever you drew and attempt to either find a use for it or burn it to hope to make the next draw better. DT AST would have still been stupid in HW because the point of the cards is not enforced variety, it’s playing to RNG