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  1. 05-22-2014 07:59 AM #1
    Cherie
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    As silly and pointless it would be to cancel stoneskin, it really isn't a huge gain to stoneskin a entire group. I mean, in a pug or on a progression fight, sure it has it's merits (which it sounds like this was both).

    When I play white mage, and a random group I'm in demands I stoneskin the group (often while I'm already in process of doing it), I just kind of think it's silly. Especially when the tank wants their stoneskin and won't pull the first trash mob until they get it. It' just going to break super quick from that single trash mob.... lol
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  2. 05-22-2014 10:59 PM #2
    Marael
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cherie View Post
    When I play white mage, and a random group I'm in demands I stoneskin the group (often while I'm already in process of doing it), I just kind of think it's silly. Especially when the tank wants their stoneskin and won't pull the first trash mob until they get it. It' just going to break super quick from that single trash mob.... lol
    White mage stoneskin blocks 18% of the player's max HP. Which is usually about equal to a cure 2, and costs the same amount of MP as cure 2. That's basically a free cure 2 to every member of your party that you will not have to spend MP on during battle. Do you not see how invaluable that is? Say your WAR tank has 10k HP for some oversimplified math, that's 1800 HP worth of damage that they are not going to take. During the time that they are not taking that 1800 damage, you can put up cleric stance and holy away 'til your little heart's content. It's not going to break super quick from a trash mob, it's going to block a specific amount of damage that you will then not have to heal on that trash pull and can be doing something else that is beneficial to the party, like dealing damage to make the trash pull that much faster, and hitting all the mobs with holy stun to further keep them from doing damage to the tank. I find my stoneskin highly useful as a white mage. Slightly less so as a scholar, as scholar stoneskin is only 10%, but that 10% is still 10%.
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