AST Anima stat allocation

[Miyha]

Isn't crit really good for Diurnal AST as well because so much of the healing comes from regens and each regen tick can hit?

I don't play AST, but I've been thinking and talking about this with my healing partner who is AST and working on his relic. Seems like most information out there is controversial and I haven't been able to find the value of DET anywhere.

Det's pretty well known to be the primary stat of WHMs and ASTs. Comparing my healing power with my 225 AST friend, it's a pretty remarkable difference.

Crit is useful in that respect, yes. But as I said, it's still rng. You would have to sacrifice your Det, a 100% reliable boost to your healing (and a significant one at that), for crit to really make a difference, and even then I'd question if it can hold up to the constant boost det will give you. SS is also a guaranteed decrease to casting timers and a guaranteed increase to your HoT ticks. Like I said though, it may come down to preference. Det to me seems like a must; crit vs spell speed is a controversy still today, and both have their positives and negatives. If you want a slightly higher crit chance, go crit. If you want to be faster and have some extra potency on top of it, go SS. As a det/ss (with det/crit melds) AST healing A8S, I find that stat configuration pretty effective.