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    Sorry but SCH + Noct is never going to be good. SCH don't have an issue keeping galvanized up so there isn't a need to have AST using Aspected Noct other than a 5% healing boost. Then you look at the fact that galvanized is always going to be stronger than Noct just compounds the problem. Thirdly AST doesn't have the big AoE heals so you need to press every advantage you can meaning Diurnal's strong regen.

    Honestly though, why not queue up Trials/Coil/CT and try for yourself. If it doesn't work good @ lv. 50 it won't work good lv. 60.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
    Sorry but SCH + Noct is never going to be good. SCH don't have an issue keeping galvanized up so there isn't a need to have AST using Aspected Noct other than a 5% healing boost. Then you look at the fact that galvanized is always going to be stronger than Noct just compounds the problem. Thirdly AST doesn't have the big AoE heals so you need to press every advantage you can meaning Diurnal's strong regen.

    Honestly though, why not queue up Trials/Coil/CT and try for yourself. If it doesn't work good @ lv. 50 it won't work good lv. 60.
    And in the moments where the SCH is dealing with something else, wouldn't it be better if the AST could drop a shield instead of a regen which won't stop/mitigate damage, and then follow up with better healing than its Diurnal counterpart? If the SCH keeps galvanize up, then that leaves the AST free to do other things like use synastry so the SCH doesn't cough up a lustrate. The fact that galvanize is better than an AST shield doesn't compound a problem. The way I see it, if you've got a SCH who isn't particularly aware of mechanics and gets downed, the AST is capable of stepping in temporarily until the SCH is back on their feet. The SCH doesn't have a big AoE heal either until 52, unless you're counting Whispering Dawn, because Succor is the same as Aspected Helios.

    I've done CT and had more success than not due to player awareness. Trials, again, I haven't had much problem with, but some people are of the opinion that doesn't mean jack. That leaves Coil, which I haven't done mostly because I don't have an FC or Static and people are focusing on AlexS atm. I was hoping others would run with it in either AlexHM or AlexS so that there'd be a wider amount of feedback rather than just one man's statement, and everyone else shouting down that it was just a lucky break or a good static.
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