User blog comment:Misdirected/The New AP System is Actually Better-ish./@comment-3991928-20150319043342

You math is off. It wasn't 3 minutes per AP point, it was 2. This meant that you could generate 10 AP in 20 minutes and 20 in 40 minutes. HUGE difference when it comes to the math of your post.

Also, I have to burn through pots like crazy now due to the new systrem. Especially in the Rift. I used to be able to use 1 mini pot and get 50 AP right away. That meant I could farm the middle rift at least twice right away and wait the 20 minutes to get the extra 10 AP to run it a third time. Now, I can run it once at 3 AP (4 if we're talking Vlad's stages) and I have to wait a half an hour to run it a second time. HUGE waste compared to the old system.

Leveling cards is going to get harder too. Because of the same reasons above. Unless you want to spend a boat load of AP pots to restore those pips in a reasonable amount of time, you're going to be spending days leveling a card rather than hours. I love all outs, but the cost to be effective with them doesn't outweight the benefits of doing it piece-meal if you can. Especially if you get screwed on the quest rewards. Changing the summons system has hurt this as well. For those folks who were already way above the rest, they probably won't see too many issues. But I don't know how a new player could ever hope to catch up. Leveling is the key to these games, especially for raid decks, but if you can't run the quests enough times to level, how are new players expected to ever catch up to the top tier guys?

They should have left the system as it was because the new system isn't going to make anything more equal except for all the folks who just started. Now there will just be the haves and have nots. Luckily I leveled up enough to be closer to the top than the bottom.