What does everyone think about those AST buffs?

[ckc22]

Is this the case? The way I read it is that healing any other party member gave the Synastry'd person 40% heal. Does it in fact give the tank the bonus as well if you heal the tank?

Yes it is. Meaning you can choose to use a 573 potency shield on cd. Roughly ~critlo with 0 rng.

[Lastelli]

Yes it is. Meaning you can choose to use a 573 potency shield on cd. Roughly ~critlo with 0 rng.

Wait, what? This is false. Synastry only works for direct healings. In aspected benefic case: 250 base potency*1.05 to account for Noct buff*1.2 for Synastry=315 potency. Then you compute 315*1.3=409.5, which is the potency of the shield. If you want to compute the total potency of the skill while Synastry is on, you just take this shield and add 315*1.4, for a total of 850 potency. Is it strong? Yes. Should you use it? Generally speaking, no, unless your tank will die without such a strong shield. As Aspected Benefic's shield component accounts for 57% of the total potency of the skill, using Aspected Benefic while Synastry is active means you're wasting Synastry because you're using Synastry primary effect only on a 315 potency spell. For comparison, using Benefic II with synastry is 1150 potency. Also critlo shield is around 900 potency (1350 total potency), even with your (wrong) numbers saying "Roughly ~critlo with 0 rng." is just...silly. Critlo shield is more than double the potency of noct AB with synastry when AB does not crit, 1.5 times better when AB does crit.