Learning how to properly play AST

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Diurnal AST is a very nice spot right now. Nocturnal is very very situational and even playable but not nearly as good as Diurnal. AST is on equal footing on most content as of now. (Fixing Nocturnal wouldn't unbalance this equal footing, it would just give AST a second option.)

Diurnal + Synastry = The extremely good and indeed very competitive healer. Have heard comments from people who, like me, like playing all three healers about how synastry is actually quite unfairly good.

Nocturnal = PvP "LET'S PISS EVERYONE THE HELL OFF" mode :P can also be used on big pulls as the shield is insta cast and generates little enmity, so it can be used to keep the tank reasonably topped off if they have the skill to keep hate on themselves while pulling; when they settle down with the entire mob and it's time to kill stuff tho, keeping the tank healed is slightly more complicated as keeping their HP topped off will be a little more complicated without the added regen effect crutch, but doable

Sadly their damage output is not that good (it's quite saddening actually), buuuuuut you can cheer yourself up by knowing you can instead boost the DPS of your other less important team members!