Quote Originally Posted by bokchoykn View Post
Yeah, exactly.

I think Turn 7 was used as an example earlier in this thread. To me T7 isn't a DPS race. It's a battle of attrition. At some point, a good Paladin might decide "Okay, we're stable now but my WHM is running on fumes. My SCH has Cursed Shriek and needs to hide. My WAR just picked up the Lamia Prosector. At this point, we're much more likely to wipe due to a dead tank than lack of damage. I'm gonna pop some CDs and Stoneskin Spam the Warrior."
Lol, this was the whole point of the comment. You guys are trying to blanket statement things that simply aren't true. There is plenty of situations a stoneskin can cushion healing required, save a tank/DD/healer or help with MP starved healers. Granted the new Coil bosses don't lend themselves to it quite as much, but looking at old content with fights like Ifrit EX, you could literally spam Stoneskin on the other tank during his stacks and be incredibly helpful to the healers. T5 had plenty of situations where you can at least mitigate some autoattacks/plummets to help with the impending death sentence. Not to mention a WHM moving for liquid hells and whatever else there might be.

My point being, if you can tactfully mitigate heavy incoming damage, you should. Blaming healers for not being perfect, while they are most likely picking up others imperfections is rather silly. Your zomgl33tdps PLD can take a 3 second cast to keep the run moving smoothly. No one is talking just random casting stone skin for the hell of it all across the party.