Quote Originally Posted by Carighan View Post
Well, we currently have no RNG, do you feel like you're just a White Mage with some card flavor?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: I feel like a White Mage who is better at doing White Mage things than actual White Mage. AST is straight up a better healer but that was already the case before the DT changes.

I liked AST because the cards were something unrelated to my healing kit that I got to keep on track of beyond mindlessly spamming Malefic while waiting for the scheduled raidwide attack. It's also a good direction to go if you want to keep the skill floor low and the ceiling high - the newbies can straight up ignore the damage buff cards and be fine while the more experienced people have something to optimise.

I think removing all randomness from the cards is stupid because them being fully predetermined is just not how fortune telling works. If anything, they should lean harder into letting us manipulate the RNG (you know, like AST used to), time magic and delayed heals. A well-timed Macrocosmos and Earthly Star make you feel like a great strategist. I want more of that.