Quote Originally Posted by Giantbane View Post
I'm almost positive it wasn't "designed" this way. It's very likely they just cut/paste shield oath with all of its existing functionality and just left it alone. They had a lot of work to do for Heavensward so I kinda doubt they put that much thought into it.
It was a conscious decision in the same vein that Shield Oath's functionality is a conscious decision.
I highly doubt it would have been so difficult for them to remove the stance from the GCD that they had to scrap the idea due to time constraints.