WHM Vs AST Healing Comparison at 50

[Staris]

So your logic is that AST is good simply because there as 1 in 100,000,000~ chance that you might draw the Balance card the first time, every time, for the entire encounter, and beat the raid because of it?

Right.

You don't need balance every time for it to be a buff.
Arrow works too, possibly the TP buff too for certain fights, 1 in 3 chance or 1 in 2 chance, add in shuffle and your better off.

Example bismark EX - you only need it during the jump on back phase so you have 3-4 chances to pull it, you can pre cast the royal road before the pull even start. Very often raids have very specific timed DPS checks. While bismarks may be a joke you never know what the raids will include.

[GideonHighmourn]

You don't need balance every time for it to be a buff.
Arrow works too, possibly the TP buff too for certain fights, 1 in 3 chance or 1 in 2 chance, add in shuffle and your better off.

Example bismark EX - you only need it during the jump on back phase so you have 3-4 chances to pull it, you can pre cast the royal road before the pull even start. Very often raids have very specific timed DPS checks. While bismarks may be a joke you never know what the raids will include.

In that same example, it's much easier and more reliable to just use Selene on SCH, and/or to use Cleric Stance as WHM or SCH to add DPS to the group.

It'd probably provide higher overall DPS, and is also 100% reliable.