Is AST recognized as a viable healer yet?

[Nalien]

Because a higher potency heal with 130% shield will do a lot more than 5 extra ticks of a regen.

The example given to me was a 1.8k shield.

My Regens do 1.2k/tic, forget 5 extra tics, 2 are enough for me to completely laugh at this statement... Bottom line, it's 15 extra seconds of me staying in Clerics Stance and nuking (that's 6 extra casts of Gravity/Malefic/Combust), where as you'd be dropping Clerics to reapply Nocturnal Aspected... Am I really having to argue this?

Not having any mitigation so you can opt to have regens that effectively do nothing because white mage regens are more than enough is a rather weird priority choice.

If White Mages Regens alone are over healing to the point where applying mine does nothing, then me applying mitigation doesn't really do anything either, all that would do is waste the White Mages Regen tics, which are apparently potent enough to keep someone capped on HP... In any situation like that, you know what I'd do? Go in with a premade with only one healer, because two clearly aren't needed. If that's not possible, I'll nuke, and I'd sooner nuke in Diurnal Sect than Nocturnal.

Mitigation has its place, T10 for example, but for the most part... If I'm casting less and spending less MP on heals and over healing, the difference between mitigation and over healing is completely arbitrary. Over healing is only an issue in the example I gave; Casting something expensive like Benefic II, when your target doesn't need a 350 potency heal, let alone a 650 potency one. That is a waste of MP and a waste of a GCD. The only example you can give for me wasting either with Regen is an example in which a second healer is apparently simply not needed in the first place...