should i even level ast?

[Billythepancake]

Technically speaking, AST is top healer DPS right now if you go by rDPS, which is the metric people care about on fflogs and high end duties. However, if you're the type where that alone isn't going to appeal to you, ehhhhh, I'm not sure I could recommend AST . It has the worst MP economy of the 3, you now have to target swap constantly with the new card system, the seal system is a mess at worst and completely unnecessary at best, and they have the same boring rotation as every other healer outside of that.

Honestly, it's up to you, the best advice anyone can give you is to try it for yourself, you may fall in love with it, or throw it in the garbage. I did 2 dungeon runs on AST in this expac so far, and that's all I could really stomach to do. I couldn't even get it to max level and do an E1s run on it for a meme like I had planned to do.