playing WHM in AV is rough since you don't have your panic button Benediction. SCH has a far easier time because it has it's main panic button in Lustrate. Also Adlo spamming and getting a crit one every now and then really helps tank survivability. AST also has it's main panic button in Essential Dignity which is basically a full heal from low hp.

I dislike AV for the same reason I dislike Brayflox's: the incoming damage is noticeably higher than the dungeon before it and you don't have access to a key tool by 1 level. I still have nightmares of doing brayflox's as a 2.x WHM and not being able to use regen or having shroud of saints to restore MP.