Every time I decide to play Ast, I find a thread that destroys my enthusiasm.

[DarkmoonVael]

I love healing, and I love doing it as AST. I fell in love with this class the first day I took the AST quest and healed my first dungeon.

Now I am doing end game content with it and I really love it, it makes me think and use its utility to the full.


My only complaints about this class are the mana drainage:

- Benefic is too weak in healing in my opinion.

- Most skills, including your main healing skill which is Benefic 2, cost too much mana.
- AST doesn't have any skill to get mana back, except the Ewer card which is too random, and the buff it gives is too small.
- When you die as an AST during a fight and you get ressed, you are extremely crippled due to your mana being lost (and not being able to get it back up properly)


But that being said, I really love this class and am determined to make it work in every content.

I what.......this post is one of the problems when it comes to AST, becuase this post is full of utter rubbish.

Benefic is cheaper than physick or cure and heals for the same amount. If you think AST spells are too expensive then lord help WHM/SCH with their spell cost.

All healing skills of AST are cheaper than their WHM/SCH direct counterpart.

Luminiferous Aether gives exactly the same mana back as Shroud of Saints, can be extended by 5 secs by Celestial Opposition and then you also have the ewer card. So it does have a skill to get mana back, its unlocked at a significantly lower level then Shroud of Saints and how the hell have you missed one of the key abilities AST has whilst playing it?

AST has exactly the same problem when it dies as SCH and WHM do. No healers come back to life with more mana than the others. All three healers have to wait until their mana restore skills are back or have promoted bishop/mana song to get mana back.

This is the type of rubbish post that does AST no good. Not one of these things is true in the slightest. Learn AST better.