Problem with Cleric Stance?

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Originally Posted by Sekibanki

For the longest time I've weaved cleric stance between globals (cast bio ii, midcast click cleric stance, queue up heal on the tank - bio finishes, cleric drops and heal starts casting). Now on too many occasions this malfunctions in dungeons where cleric doesn't drop or takes excessive time to turn off. This was working fine at heavensward launch even.

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I do the same thing - 'queuing' cleric to turn off before the dps cast is completed.

I've been having this case recently also (I just chalked it up to WHM burnout) - I never really had a problem before last week. I'd hit it while it was available and start healing..... for smidgeons.... only to find off it never went off. Caused a near wipe leveling in Bray NM on my AST. >_> Second boss - I was stuck in a bubble with the DPS tunnel visioning on the boss, the tank was the only one trying to get me out (along with me) but my HP is ticking + getting a face full of dragon breath because the tank is the only one trying x_x I switched from Cleric in trying to DPS my way out to heal..... that didn't turn out so well. The tank and I in dire straights with tiny heals - and with the two of us barely getting any HP on us, I didn't have any time to look at the problem - just slap Lightspeed and spam the AoE heal to keep us both alive. The two of us lived, barely, but...... I want to strangle cleric, now, when I see it still on.

I've also been having this problem. I thought it was just my bad play but there were times in Ravana where I knew I had queued cleric off but it remains on.

Mudra-gate now becomes Stance Dance-gate!

I had this problem excessively over the weekend. The whole 7 secs I could DPS wasted because too many times Cleric Stance hung and got my Essential Dignity.

They should just get rid of the stance dancing crap, let it only be used outside combat. Healers should just heal, not dps, its not their role. Its like saying the DPS should tank/heal. This is a Trinity type of MMO, keep it that way or change it to GW2 style.

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Originally Posted by chumsy

They should just get rid of the stance dancing crap, let it only be used outside combat. Healers should just heal, not dps, its not their role. Its like saying the DPS should tank/heal. This is a Trinity type of MMO, keep it that way or change it to GW2 style.

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Not this again, please.

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Originally Posted by chumsy

They should just get rid of the stance dancing crap, let it only be used outside combat. Healers should just heal, not dps, its not their role. Its like saying the DPS should tank/heal. This is a Trinity type of MMO, keep it that way or change it to GW2 style.

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Lolwhat? Telling a healer to strictly heal is making you look real stupid.

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Originally Posted by chumsy

They should just get rid of the stance dancing crap, let it only be used outside combat. Healers should just heal, not dps, its not their role. Its like saying the DPS should tank/heal. This is a Trinity type of MMO, keep it that way or change it to GW2 style.

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Not with this BS again. Listen you may not like stance dancing but note that some people do. Just know that a healer that knows when it's safe to do and does dps instead of standing there like I assume you do. Just cause you don't like to do something doesn't mean people should listen to you. Get out if you have nothing good to say.

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Originally Posted by chumsy

They should just get rid of the stance dancing crap, let it only be used outside combat. Healers should just heal, not dps, its not their role. Its like saying the DPS should tank/heal. This is a Trinity type of MMO, keep it that way or change it to GW2 style.

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Gotta love how someone tries to reignite this flamefest every other week.

By this point all we have to do is link the Search feature and walk away.

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Originally Posted by Rox_Unlimited

Not with this BS again. Listen you may not like stance dancing but note that some people do. Just know that a healer that knows when it's safe to do and does dps instead of standing there like I assume you do. Just cause you don't like to do something doesn't mean people should listen to you. Get out if you have nothing good to say.

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Cleric stance was created for the sole purpose of soloing. Stop trying with the excuse that a non dps healer isnt a good healer. Is that to say a non healing tank isnt good? why dont a PLD throw out some Cures then? ridiculous, this isnt GW2 lol. I bet you were the ones that wiped the raid when you tried to throw out a Holy, which caused the tank to die and wiped the raid. DPSing as a healer is a luxury not a necessity get that fact imbedded into your MMO brains.

lets just make every job capable of doing everything problem solved? wait i think i know that game, its called GW2 lol

or better yet just give all healers the cleric stance benefit without the penalty? but in all honesty, if SE really intended healers to dps, they would have already done that; stance switching is the dumbest game mechanic ive ever heard of, but i suppose to some its fun to click a million buttons.

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Originally Posted by Cynfael

Gotta love how someone tries to reignite this flamefest every other week.

By this point all we have to do is link the Search feature and walk away.

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its a flamefest because ppl realize its bad game mechanics

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Originally Posted by chumsy

Cleric stance was created for the sole purpose of soloing. Stop trying with the excuse that a non dps healer isnt a good healer. Is that to say a non healing tank isnt good? why dont a PLD throw out some Cures then? ridiculous, this isnt GW2 lol. I bet you were the ones that wiped the raid when you tried to throw out a Holy, which caused the tank to die and wiped the raid. DPSing as a healer is a luxury not a necessity get that fact imbedded into your MMO brains.

lets just make every job capable of doing everything problem solved? wait i think i know that game, its called GW2 lol

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This isn't the thread to debate the use of Cleric Stance. Please don't try making it as such. There are plenty of (buried) threads about this "issue"; make one of your own flame fest filled threads if you want, but stop trying to carry this debate to unrelated threads.