You do realize that people don’t have to be at 100% health 100% of the time, yes? They only need Max HP if there is a heavy hit coming that will kill them...which this game has very little of outside of the highest of high-end content (and even in things like God Kefka, you do not need 100% HP 100% of the time—it’s perfectly acceptable to let HoTs (which means “heals over time”) tick up from 75% to 100%. Or 50% to 85%. To have HoTs ticking on people that are at 100% HP is a waste of the ticks. I don’t know how many other ways to spell that out for you.
It absolutely is a bad thing. When you heal people that are already at 100%, or whom are at 80% and have 30 seconds of regen ticks on them that will inevitably heal them up to 100%, you are wasting your MP, your GCD, and your time on overhealing them. You do understand the concept of “overhealing”, yes? Any heal that hits a person that has max health is a complete and utter waste. There is no “it’s okay” about it. Sorry not sorry, but you are incredibly wrong with this statement.
There’s no need to nuke people up to 100% if the HoTs will get them there. You’re wasting the regen ticks, be them your own or your co-healer’s.
You don’t know what you’re talking about since you think double Diurnal is a good way to play AST.
You NEVER need 4 regens on a single target. EVER.
The only one with issues in this thread is you, my friend. The ASTs talking to you in this thread have a lot more experience than you do on the job. Miste has cleared Savage on AST; I have raided Savage on AST, and have played the job for 2 years. Have you cleared Savage on AST? Have you cleared it effectively? Probably not, because you wouldn’t get very far in it with your playstyle and your inability to adapt and work with your co-healer.
Your “personal choice” is bad play. Stop spreading it around like it’s the correct way to play the job, because that is what you’re doing with your posts in this thread, as well as this:
The “xiv population astrologian general consensus” is a lot more correct on how to play the job than you are. Get over yourself, dude.