Quote Originally Posted by Vill_Castiglioni View Post
People keep saying "SCH/WHM are so much stronger and easier to play than AST." People are forgetting that the 3 new jobs are complex and supposed to be played by advanced players in a high skilled manner. That's the whole point of the class, entirely.

Still, people are complainng about mp management being rough. It's really the same as WHM if you're playing the class right.
I have played both WHM and AST using the SAME gear (except the MH) in the SAME instance and AST healing is still subpar. If I wasn't interested in AST, why would I level it to 60? Factual-wise, AST's healing has lower healing potency than WHM. Healing potency affects mana management - if AST requires more healing spells to be cast to heal the same amount of HP compared to WHM, AST will use more mana than WHM. Hence, AST's mana management is going to be more problematic than a WHM's - which part of this logic do you not get?

To state here that WHM's mana management is the same as AST is just plain factually wrong - it is not a perception, it is factually wrong. Learn to accept this.