How could you do this to AST?

[ty_taurus]

...but then I actually played in Nocturnal vs. Diurnal, so there's that.

I guess my point overall is, what exactly changes about your playstyle when in Nocturnal vs Diurnal? Did it change how you used your cards? Did it change how you contributed to DPS? Did it even change when you used certain healing actions, really? Maybe if Aspected Benefic was exclusively a barrier and didn't actually restore HP, then you could argue it forced you to heal preemptively. People say that about Aspected Benefic and Adloquium now, but the thing is that's not really efficient. If your party has max HP, then preemptively casting a barrier would also be overhealing, which is wasteful. Any time where your party is injured, then the barrier is virtually the same as the added healing you'd have received from a Benefic II.

What I'm getting at is, the barrier is more or less a consequence of using Aspected Benefic vs Benefic II, and in most examples, you'd probably be using it at the same places in Diurnal as well.