Why people says AST is bad?

[RiisWolf]

A mediocre increase not worth the merit. It reduces our main heal's cast time by 0.10 sec, and our group heal by 0.13 sec. This in no way makes us a "fast healer", and serves only to attempt to slightly band-aid our already existing handicaps (weak healing) and hurt our already poor MP efficiency even further.

While yes, the increase is decent, it's not enough to put us into the category of "fast healer." That's all assuming you are actually using 1 of our 2 sects too (there's another one, even if it's weak right now). Other healers have speed increases of their own (Presence of Mind, Fey Wind) as well, along with stronger instant cast heals (Indomitability, Assize, Tetragrammaton, Benediction) so it's not like we're the only one, even if our bonus is passive.

Do you have ANY idea how effective Fey wind is now?

AST's Diurnal Sect increases attack speed by 5% while active.
Fey Wind increases attack speed by 3% for 30 seconds and has 1 minute CD. And keep in mind, you said how ineffective 5% is, so why are you spouting NEED favoring spell that is so nerfed it's doing no one a huge favor?
Presence of mind from WHMs, sure increases speed by 20%, but your not using it again for 2.5 minutes! Sooner if for whatever reason they get buffed by the spear card. That CD is best for killing things faster or speeding up with much need healing normally for emergencies. THe CD is so long, why is this even being compared to the other two???
And WHM's are always the best when it comes to raw healing (and power), but they sure can't support like ASTs do, not even as much as a SCH, whom are not capable of providing any significant Damage increase, resource reduction, CD reduction.

[RichardButte]

And WHM's are always the best when it comes to raw healing (and power), but they sure can't support like ASTs do, not even as much as a SCH, whom are not capable of providing any significant Damage increase, resource reduction, CD reduction.

Do you actually play AST? If you do, have you also played any other healer?

Lv59 SCH and 56 AST, here, and I can safely say that the buffs just...aren't..worth...it. Nothing an AST brings to a party is worth bringing a healer with crappier cooldowns and emergency buttons, and that's even IF the AST could pull the right every single time (which it can't).

Again, the numbers are against you, here. Anyone who insists on saying that AST is fine in the face of the raw data that proves otherwise may as well just be trying to argue that the earth is flat...