Why people says AST is bad?

[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...