Is AST recognized as a viable healer yet?

[FoxyAreku]

Yes it's more than fine now. However White mage/noct AST is way better than Scholar/diurnal AST as far as compositions go.

Nocturnal Sect died for me the moment I got Time Dilation, the synergy between that and Diurnal is just too nice, it's effectively an extra 6k HP healed for nothing. Nocturnal basically just exists for pre-pull buffing at this point...

This is very incorrect and you should be ashamed. The time dilation thing is nice but it's only 5 more ticks of regen and you could just re-apply the shield for noct, not like it's expensive.

Only reason to use Diurnal is two situation-4 man preference, or 8 mans when you're with a scholar. I facepalm whenever I see someone pick diurnal when we have a whitemage, all the over healing, none of the mitigation. :/