Healing with Cleric Stance ON

most dungeons can be healed with cleric stance on and selene out.

i only heal with cleric stance up in 1 condition

when i have benediction up

to not waste time switch cleric off top tank HP , SS & regen , switch cleric on and DPS

This would be more an awareness thing. It is unlikely a non-distracting red glow will help the healer. After all, people still die to blighted bouquet on t6 accidentally when the screen is 1/4 yellow.

For the healers that counter "I'm attacking" when being told, it is either he/ she is being defensive/ childish counter or he/ she feels comfortable with the tank's hp falling to critical. Applications of healing in cleric stance (all are niche uses):

1. Speed run opener. Cleric stance > Holy > Cure 2 > Holy > Holy (to maximize chain stun time)
2. Going to pull aggro.
3. Off-healing. In 4-man, selene/ eos handling main healing (you can get synced into a lvl18 dungeon as SCH, on cleric stance then change your only available cross-class skill to aero; leaving cleric stance on until end of duty) and in 8-man, a reliable/ agreed upon main healer (though can't see why you can't switch stances).

I'm guilty of leaving Cleric on and not realising until waaay later...

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

To be fair, I think the name is misleading. I think Cleric I think Healer.

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Its called Crusader's Stance in the Japanese version. Makes a little bit more sense.

I kind of wish Cleric Stance would use up the cooldown when turning it off. As Healer, sometimes I make the clumsy mistake of pressing the Cleric Stance button twice by accident and then going right back into Cleric Stance when I meant to turn it off.

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Originally Posted by DragonSlayer45

Its called Crusader's Stance in the Japanese version. Makes a little bit more sense.

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Didn't know that but I wholeheartedly agree.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

A red aura when in cleric would be a nice touch. The game needs visual touches for buffs/debuffs on our characters. Why don't we have the classic poison animation above our heads when poisoned, for example?

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In the 2.28 patch they added heart's above your character when you are Seduced by Haukke Manor HM's final boss. Was a nice touch, I'm hoping they do more of these.

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

To be fair, I think the name is misleading. I think Cleric I think Healer.

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Then you are thinking wrong. Cleric comes from D&D where clerics are like battle healers. They have strong physical and magical attacks to compliment their heals. They are very closely related to Paladins and are almost always a militant fighter.

Pretty much every game uses them this way as well. Everquest they were strong as can be against undead, used a shield and mace as well as heavy armor.

I think it'd be better called Druid stance since for Conjurer's it's used for using more elemental blast magic.

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

To be fair, I think the name is misleading. I think Cleric I think Healer. Even now when I play my White Mage it feels counter-intuitive switching to Cleric's Stance to DPS. It'd be far clearer if there was a healing and DPS'ing stance in much the same way Monks have a damage mitigation and damage dealing stance.

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The first final fantasy's were loosely based on dungeons and dragons. In Dungeons and Dragons a Cleric can wield heavy armor and heavy maces. They are anything but a feeble healer.