Quote Originally Posted by Geardagas View Post
So far you've done alot of talking, and not much else. You don't state facts and you obviously make certain things up. Watch this:

"I see alot of groups in my server that aren't using AST and progressing."

See how easy that was?

You can't just contradict common sense and personal experience and expect everyone to believe you.

AST is objectively worse than WHM and SCH.
I don't have to make anything up, Geardagas, because I already have a raid group and we're doing it with me as AST, so I couldn't care less about how other groups feel about the job. I've seen people not clearing it with WHM/SCH and clearing it with AST/SCH and WHM/AST.
I've said it a lot of times in other posts that it can be easier with WHM/SCH and the reason is simple: people are used to doing that combo, so there are no surprises during raid. When people start raiding, and that's specially true for healers, you see that lots of things you thought were useful during dungeons or leveling are not good during raid, so there's a learning curve. It's always going to be easier to do what you're already familiar with, because you can use your previous knowledge to deal with stuff. Mechanics repeat themselves, there's nothing that new in the raiding scenario.