Quote Originally Posted by Yeol View Post
Being overpowered + having utility is just not right. Why would people bother playing other jobs if they have a very powerful job that has everything?
Except this is exactly what AST is. It can heal as good as a WHM, mitigate better (even in diurnal), can reliably DPS more and offers great utility.
This is everything a healer is capable of. And it can do it all.

Also I know a popular argument is that WHM si a simpler healer, but this is really not true. Just like Monk not doing that much more DPS than a DRG, WHM doesn't heal so well that it achieves something an AST cannot.
If WHM heals were so strong it completely simplified mechanics and raid damage that would be different, but 90% of the time they heal about as much as an AST does, with the difference in healing power only being shown on paper, not in use.