Oh indeed, definitely not disagreeing or using bad AST's as an example, We're on the same page that a good AST can cover the bulk of the healing and class design should be based around playing the class properly.

Quote Originally Posted by YusiKha View Post
Now this is the part of healing as WHM or SCH, Heck WHM + SCH especially, that I dislike so much. It's not a game of managing your DPS tools to freely heal, but a constant DPS loss that someone has to bite the bullet for.
WHM has no free healing outside of Dia refreshes (of which Assize takes a weave slot in half of), since Afflatus is a built-in damage loss, but Asylum, Tetra, and Bene are all immediately strong and useful.
It blows my mind that it's optimal to just ignore a job's main mechanic

SCH has access to free weave slots (3 per minute plus Dissipation, which is also your movement), but the only skills that can be freely used are Embrace/Seraphic Veil (Unconrollable 105p/280p) Whispering Dawn (580p), Fey Blessing (245p), and Fey Union (280p/tick). Compare that to AST's free everything
'Oh but Yusi you also have Seraph's Consolation and Recitation too' Those both require 2 energy drains to use! 3 for both Consolation stacks! A 2 minute cooldown and all 3 aetherflow stacks used on uncontrollable single-target heals and 840p worth of healing and shielding.
Don't disagree there either. I honestly don't have a definite answer to how to fix it or improve it while having no negative impact in other parts of gameplay, class identity or homogenizing, but the discussion is quite interesting. How would you fix that issue with WhM/ScH yourself?