You're looking at it purely from a dps perspective. AST, while doing huge raid healing, can put out numbers that are slightly ahead of WhM who is barely healing at all. If that same WhM tried to take a bulk of the raid healing, they'd drop significantly. AST simply contributes more because it can deal high damage and high healing thanks to it's mobility, weaving and toolkit. WhM/ScH you have to pick one.

You say WhM having a fraction the mobility of a BLM and so few weave windows it has some mandatory clipping is good class design and intentional weakness, yet AST having MP management as it's only weakness is an "issue" that needs to be fixed?

Quote Originally Posted by Sabrenn View Post
Shouldn't we want all healers to be like that though? Seems unfair to not want flawless performance ability from a job.
Depends on the definition of flawless. If you mean no weaknesses at all, they risk becoming copies of each other that do everything perfectly. If you mean smooth enjoyable gameplay with a unique toolkit able to handle any situation, with each bringing something to the table then I'd definitely agree. It's gameplay and ironing out clunkiness they should be working on, rather than throwing buffs and simplification at everything that doesn't have a high enough participation rate.