AST's weakness in end game

[AzureFlare]

He means there is tool for MP regen that scales with piety. Unless I've missed a memo, that's correct isn't it? We just have base mana ticks, whereas WHM has base mana ticks + Assize and SCH has base mana ticks + Aetherflow.

Edit: LA and Ewer are not based on piety. Their potencies only scale with level. Try it yourself, unequip all your gear. LA will restore 707MP per tick.

However, as much as I enjoy your talk about RNG mechanics, not getting 1 extended Ewer or 2 Ewers is the more rare case out of the two (getting vs not getting). My probability math went down the drain, but having 2 draws with one on a 1/6 chance to roll as needed (just Ewer) and one on a 1/2 chance (Ewer, Arrow or Spear) to roll as needed out of 24 draws should be high enough to make it a guarantee or near guarantee.

You mentioned it yourself earlier, let's wait until 3.2 rolls out. Context matters. There are thousands of combinations you can make between healing needed for a fight, when the burst is needed and how much, how many globals you have to do what amount of healing. If there's a fight designed for a WHM to always pull out Divine Seal + Medica 2 and Assize with nothing for AST to compensate, of course WHM will be better. If there's only tank healing and single target damage with bursts in 90s or larger intervals, of course AST will be better.