@ WHM who stoneskin whole party

[Hazanko]

just stop it, most of the time its just wasted anyways.

Do you even know what Stoneskin does?
I take it not since you only have conjure level 15 still.
But to let you know what Stoneskin does for a white mage.
Stoneskin-Creates a barrier around target that prevents physical damage totaling 18% of target's maximum HP. (10% until 36)
PLDs and SCHs only get 10%, so if you don't see why white mages use it and do it to everyone, you sir are possibly playing the wrong class and should roll as a dps and then ask yourself "Why is the white mage not casting Stoneskin on me?" :c

[alhandra]

i usually only drop stoneskin on the dps in my groups because i can mitigate dmg enough with adlo on the tank. having stoneskin up on my dps gives me a bit of breathing room if they take a hit or two by accident tho. and really, if people are just standing around, why not buff them?

[NRhodes]

@Squa

Silly player, go study your tooltips and game mechanics before making another ignorant comment like this.

[WLotus]

Sometimes tanks in my pug groups will just charge in without stoneskin or protect. Well maybe they will be fine w/o it but when DPS take damage, the stoneskin is basically a free cure on everyone. This not only makes the start of fights much safer but saves healers Mana from healing everyone as well.

[420Psykoz]

TLDR
Stoneskin saves time, mp, and enmity when all 3 matters.
Stoneskin costs time when it doesn't matter.

[Hekmatyar-Koko]

It is obvious isn't it? It saves a healers MP during a drawn out fight. Might not seem like a lot, but it still makes a difference. ANY extra MP is welcome, ANY time.

Those few heals you didn't have to do at the start of the fight = more healing on tank. Whole group takes damage, just one Medica I is sufficient to heal them back up = MP saved.

Not to mention less enmity acquisition on a boss that hits hard on a pull.

Simple.

[Advocatus]

just stop it, most of the time its just wasted anyways.

In my experience, it's never wasted. Either it's damage mitigated in advance for no MP (thank you default MP regeneration), even if it's only used against the final boss, or it's used up on normal mobs because people don't know how to position themselves, pull, and/or monitor enmity properly. Every single dungeon I've run through Stoneskin was always used on everyone I cast it in, myself included.

You should probably level as a conjurer before you make ridiculous statements such as this, Squa.

[Noxaddo]

stone skins slows the build up of limit break bar. the less damage your allies take the less healing you do = less lb built up.

[Advocatus]

stone skins slows the build up of limit break bar. the less damage your allies take the less healing you do = less lb built up.

It doesn't really matter, considering I've almost always had both full bars by the time we reached the final boss. I say "almost" here because some groups I left due to them being terrible. Some wouldn't listen, some thought it would be okay to pull a dozen mobs at a time, etc.

[Richiealvian]

Well, I'm not against/for this but.. *confession bear* I'm that WHM that never stoneskins, unless a few situations:
1. Someone died, has a weakness.. and stuff like geocrush is coming up
2. Avoiding tank stacks
3. Stuff like Death Sentence. But then i forget 80% of the time
4. Doing it to myself when i know I'm going to get busy pretty soon

Granted I've been through most content, if not all for the moment but it does have its uses, I just never had the patience to wait for stoneskins in the beginning of the fight.. and kind of feel slow when someone does it. I usually just sat there and did nothing until they pulled >_<