Quote Originally Posted by Atoli View Post
Healing requires a healing-friendly stance or it takes a lot of MP AND time to get everyone up again. I prefer not having to switch out of dps stance all the time just to rescue people who refuse to move out of aoes and stuff. Stoneskin + regen is a very useful combo to circumvent stance switching
And if you are a healer who refuses to deal dmg, you have even more reason to keep SS up on everyone all the time, because you often have nothing to do anyway.
You have it the other way around; it takes more time to apply stoneskin on everyone - or even on one person for that matter - than to heal them up.

On single target instance, a melee would get a Stoneskin worth about 1300 points of damage. On an equally geared healer, a single Cure/Benefic/Physick would be worth about 3400 HP recovery. That's 2100 recovered than prevented at half the MP cost. In cases of Scholars and Astrologians that's also 0.5s less GCD waste
In case of AoE, let's say 4 targets, that's 5600 points of mitigation (18000 HP tank, 12000 HP healer, 13000 HP DPS) and takes 10 seconds to cast as a White Mage or 12 seconds as a Scholar or Astrologian. A single (ET) Succor, Helios or Medica is good for 2400 HP recovery each or 9600 HP spread over 4 targets and takes significantly less time to cast.

As for healers who refuse to deal damage, the point still stands that Stoneskin has an ridiculous cost for it's effectiveness and in non endgame raid, application of it is a waste of time unless it's to prolong your time in Cleric's Stance. Inability to switch out of Cleric's Stance and making healing "inefficient" is a player issue, not a class problem.