It's me, again! (AST checkup)

[Rongway]

I'm still trying to break out of that "Save emergency-type spells for emergency that probably never come" thing...

Essential Dignity, for some reason, gets seen like Benediction... I keep thinking it's a "I better not use this in case I need it 10 seconds later" type thing. need to break myself of it, true! Took me awhile to break myself of having that mentality towards stuff like Rampart back when I used to tank.

I do admit I need to work on that, and actually use it more often.

Last I read, Dignity maxes out at 1000 potency when the target is at 1HP, and is about 700 potency when the target is at 50% HP, so if you use it when the target is at half, it's essentially a frinstant Benefic II. The beautiful thing about Dignity is that its cooldown is so short you can use it 4~5 times before Benediction would cool down. If you use it frequently, that frees up 1.5 GCDs per minute that you could spend on DPS or AoE heals. It also frees up about 1000 MP per minute, which should help since you mention MP worries on AST.

Speaking of MP worries, more frequent use of Lightspeed and Synastry will help relieve some stress there. Lightspeed reduces the cost of 4~5 spells by half, and if it happens to fall within your Celestial Opposition (later, lv60 action) it lasts for 9~10 spells. Synastry will also save you MP on heals, as its piggyback heal effect can be used like a stronger version of Largesse if the tank is taking lots of damage, or to spread the healing around without having to take extra actions or spend MP on AoE heals.

[Veis_Alveare]

Synastry will also save you MP on heals, as its piggyback heal effect can be used like a stronger version of Largesse if the tank is taking lots of damage, or to spread the healing around without having to take extra actions or spend MP on AoE heals.

I'm fairly certain they nerfed the healing recieved bonus on Synastry so that if you cast a direct heal on the person you've targeted with it they don't recieve any bonus heal beyond the initial hit.

Also using ED on CD can once you're I believe 68 can reduce the CD of Lightspeed by 5 seconds. I honestly don't pay much attention to CD reduction, it may only be when ED crits or something like that, but it's defintely another reason to use it frequently.

[Rongway]

I'm fairly certain they nerfed the healing recieved bonus on Synastry so that if you cast a direct heal on the person you've targeted with it they don't recieve any bonus heal beyond the initial hit. .

They get the piggyback heal whether you Benefic/II/Aspect yourself, them, or another party member. It's counted as having an unspecified source though, so it won't show up in the chat log and you won't see it if you have pop-up text disabled (like a DoT).

I'm not sure why they programmed it that way instead of making it flying text like a HoT tick, other than it might have implications for enmity generation (that is, the piggyback heal doesn't generate additional enmity).