Another comparation between AST and WHM

[Adventica6]

whms throughput cd's divine seal/presence of mind + there 3 off gcd big heals is what makes whm a better choice and people know that.

As someone else said, it's not about potencies, it's about hard healing cooldowns that matter, divine seal regens, presence of mind cure spams, full heal off gcd tetras, insant no mana aoe assizes, swift cast holys, the list literally goes on.

And this is why there is a thousand threads on the issue.

[Roxas_Andrade]

As someone else said, it's not about potencies, it's about hard healing cooldowns that matter, divine seal regens, presence of mind cure spams, full heal off gcd tetras, insant no mana aoe assizes, swift cast holys, the list literally goes on.

I agree that it's not all about potencies, but a Divine+Regen heals 195pot per tick. You can cast it on the tank and do other things, like heal a DPS, DPS himself, remove bad status, Stone Skin everybody or whatever. (Some options are better than others).
Meanwhile, Diurnal AST cast his 100pot per tick Asp.Benefic and barely has time to do other things. Time dilation helps, but his regen is still too weak for you to focus on another matter. A Nocturnal AST has it even worse: His 250pot shield gives little time to cast a second spell to continue healing before it's needed again, giving no time to spare at all.

Sure AST is lacking some healing CD's, but increasing his Regen potency and buffing Noct would be an awesome change that wouldn't demand a lot of work. Just change some numbers in the code...

[Leiloni]

whms throughput cd's divine seal/presence of mind + there 3 off gcd big heals is what makes whm a better choice and people know that.

As someone else said, it's not about potencies, it's about hard healing cooldowns that matter, divine seal regens, presence of mind cure spams, full heal off gcd tetras, insant no mana aoe assizes, swift cast holys, the list literally goes on.

And this is why there is a thousand threads on the issue.

One thing too aside from just better healing CDs (which is definitely needed) is we need the ability to AoE heal people from farther away. WHM has Cure III and Asylum (even Divine Seal would be a great help in that fight when people are so spread out, at least you can get their HP up in less single target casts). SCH has Fairy AoE heals, Sacred Soil, and can Deployment Tactics their fairy (and Emergency Tactics for that matter).

I noticed this when I finally went into my first A4 and it was with another AST. The healing was severely lacking because when both of us are trying to stay away from the group and are at the back/edge, we can really only single target heal with the occasional Diurnal AH during phase changes. That is just not enough when a ton of people are taking damage and we can't just walk up to the middle of them all and AoE spam. Granted the rest of the group was not stellar, but double AST just did not feel like we had the proper tools for that fight. We only managed to get it down because he LB3'd at the end on our 2nd try...