Is AST recognized as a viable healer yet?

[Nalien]

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.

And... My point was that rather than reapplying Nocturnal Aspected, I'm just continuing to nuking... Not only am I nuking faster, I'm nuking for longer... Why would I opt to reapply something frequently when I can provide some additional DPS instead?

I facepalm whenever I see someone pick diurnal when we have a whitemage, all the over healing, none of the mitigation. :/

I honestly don't see this as a problem when the over healing is coming from Regen effects... It's not like I'm going out of my way to stop nuking to over heal and waste MP by casting Benefic II when Benefic isn't even necessary, it's Regen. If it's causing over healing I don't really care, I'll just continue nuking while you're reapplying Nocturnal. I might be over healing, but I'm casting less heals. Regen based over healing is the ideal situation IMO, the only reason it'll cause MP issues is from the vast number of nukes I'll be casting...

The only drawback with Regen is terrible tanks and pulls.