Astrologian misconceptions

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I have been playing Astrologian since it was introduced and it is my favourite class in the entire game. I have a geared one as my main at i203 and I am a damn good AST if I do say so myself. I never understand why people like to shite on AST as a healer when compared to SCH and WHM.

There is good......and there are those that have cleared A3S and/or A4S.
The majority of AST reputation is based on their current performance in the last two turns of Alex Savage. Just look up FFLOGS yourself, there are like 40 ASTs on the list of A4S cleared vs hundreds of WHM + SCH. There is more than a misconception here, the class still needs tweaking for it to become great.
Oh, additionally, a signifcant number of those ASTs on FFLOGs are simply there to pad the parse numbers, most of those teams are so good that healer composition means little.
While it is true that AST is a class that scales well with skill, most of the truly excellent ASTs are simply top tier players who would do well with any other healer too.