Quote Originally Posted by SaintK View Post
People are overlooking what the main complaint is. Compared to the other heals AST is mediocre at best. You say scholar aoe healing is worse than AST. That simply is not true, it might have been true if AST was released pre heavensward. Succor is has a wider AOE iirc, and yes, your new aoe is 15 yalms but at least its instant and about the same as helios, AND you have a pet throwing a 300 auto pilot cure on the lowest party member, who can also whispering dawn AOE healing. How is AST aoe healing better than sch again? WHM with divine seal medica 2 is practically three times more potent than one helios.
As much as I hate comparing things in a vacuum, I think I'm dangerously close to doing just that, but here goes:

Succor in itself is a poor AOE heal for actual damage recovery. It should be precasted once before major group damage, and once after. Any more than that, and you're literally wasting half of its MP cost.

Square now gave SCHs indomitability (400 potency instant cast AOE heal), and emergency tactics (converts shield effect of next spell to bonus healing, which is like turning your next succor into medica). Each of these abilities have a 30 second cooldown. Whispering dawn has a 1min cooldown, and also potent.

'Beats' may have been the wrong word, but what I meant was AST doesn't need to rely on a cooldown to AOE heal with the potency of a WHM.