So why is the default response here to the OP's question, "anyone who does this is an idiot" its not like there is ANYTHING in game to tell you healer shields don't play nice together, considering regen effects seem to stack. I'm a new AST almost at 70 and I would have never known that my shields would mess with a scholar's shields, or that my shields weren't as powerful and I should want to swap to my regen affects instead.

Is it so hard to just quickly explain the problem to the other healer? I mean if he ignores you then yeah maybe he is an idiot.

How buffs interact with one another and support each other in some cases in this game is not part of any in-game tutorial. If you aren't reading the right guides you could easily not know this type of stuff.

I'm sure most of the player base isn't active in Reddit, or this forum or a discord where a better understanding of play mechanics is more common. Shouldn't this be part of the grouping tutorials?