WHM was not on the bench for an entire expansion. If you were on the bench for all of HW that reflects more on your skill as a WHM than the class itself. It wasn't until 3.4 that people started to prefer AST/SCH.

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Also AST can give The Ewer to anyone in the party including their self, as a single target or AoE.
The goal of AST's MP management is to use as few Ewers for MP management as possible because that is the loss of a Royal Road party buff or a possible redraw into Balance/Arrow.