First time healing (AST) - what should I know?

[Neela]

after learning the cards... there is one point which really make the difference on the way to become a good AST: the knowledge and instinct to use the right stance.

It's more than choosing between "Reg or Shield", most of the random ASTs i met just don't care about being flexibel with stances at all... a few days ago had an experience most of the comm would never confirm with... i (ast) was thrown into a really novice-like grp on a12... co healer was a Sch so i switched to Diu stance (unwritten rule cause Noc and Adlo don't stack and negate themselves)... we wiped 3x times until I switched back to Noc - 4/7 player asked me if im serious about that and guess what... we cleared it as Noc/Adlo team without any further wipes. It's not the common way and like I said the Sch was still in training or at least it seemed so. But breaking the "rules" and knowing how to use your stances right might be the last few % to become a good Ast in the end. (Like Schs should know about fairies...but i already gave up on this quite a while ago)