Starting healing with AST... Did I bite off too much?

[Nekotee]

Same as darkmoon i would say
(And that worked well before :P)

For exemple i do combine synastrie+LA+lightspeed + CO during the tornado phase on sephirot EX
It become so easy to heal everyone for all the massive damage.
Plus depending of my tank it allow a quick and huge healing after the tower

Having a spear right before this combo is really helpful XD

NEVER tried midas savage because my group don't if they do not have they sephirot weapon...

[BrielleBeaudonet]

What I suggest:
Collective Unconsciousness -> Synastry > Aspected Benefic -> Light Speed -> Aspected Helios -> Celestial Opposition + Cleric's stance -> Gravity -> Time dilation -> Gravity x4 -> Swiftcast -> Gravity
I might be off by 1 gravity, no idea. It's nonsense to spam Gravity with Light Speed in the first place

Effectively the total time for each of your buffs, with Time dilation, is:
Light speed 15s
Synastry 25s
Wheel of Fortune 35s
Aspected Benefic (regen effect) 38s with 20% increased healing
Aspected Helios (regen effect) 35s with 20% increased healing
Any card you happen to have on the tank +20s

It's been fascinating reading about this regen rotation and optimization. I just tried this out in the Vault (minus Celestial Opposition) and it's CRAZY effective. I was able to spam Gravity to my heart's content, and it also made the last boss (typically a difficult fight and an MP nightmare for me) WAY easier.

[BrielleBeaudonet]

I just wanted to point out that we've started arguing optimal action sequences in a thread that began as a pep talk for a new AST. How bout we not scare off any new ASTs who get curious and click on this one, as there are already plenty of scary mathsy optimization threads to be found if people are interested in that side of things.

I definitely appreciate that thought. It was initially pretty intimidating reading some of these later posts, but I'm going to have to learn these things anyway, so it's all good!