Quote Originally Posted by GeekMatt View Post
AST isn't for inexperienced healers due to it's low potency and dependency on mp management (as a duo those two factors make life especially hard when you aren't managing). Also the cards require you to understand how the party works.
That is pretty much the truth. An already inexperienced healer will struggle with AST, and if they don't know how other jobs work that well they won't be providing the right card utility to the group either. If you were already good with MP management with WHM/SCH, you pretty much know when you have to use Aether on cooldown, and to make full use of lightspeed if the situation calls for speedy heals versus other cooldowns you were used to like Divine Seal, Emergency Tactics, etc.

Granted, I don't feel we can DPS so much with the job compared to the other two unless we get some Ewer support, which of course is based on RNG but we do have that utility as well. I like the job when RNG lines up with the stars, like it is a beauty to see that balance on a SMN in dreadwyrm trance ready to explode some big damage. The lower potency isn't really the issue though (being well-geared helps this situation of course). It's more along the lines of tighter MP management.