The arrogance of some people

[Lukha]

I wanna be a pure healer, but I can't, so I do my frankly pointless dps/get stressed out toeing the line between Holy and healing.

If your DPS is 'frankly pointless', you're doing something wrong. In the right scenario, WHM is capable of being top DPS because of how strong our AoE game is.

You shouldn't have to stress between Holy and healing skills, either, if you have decent judgement and use your tools correctly. Between Asylum, Regen and Medica II, you have 21 seconds of hands-free 300 potency healing, and 200 after that if you keep Medica II and Regen up (which you should be, since they're cost efficient and exist to lower your stress level). Once you toggle Cleric Stance, you have about a spell and a half before you can turn it back off (1.5 Holies, Aero III and most of Aero II, Aero II, Aero I+Fluid Aura); you can click it off preemptively at about 2/3 through casting a spell. If your tank can't survive for five seconds during a normal pull WITH 200 or 300 worth of regen effect on him, you've got much bigger problems than DPSing and should ask whether his gear is broken or he'd like to try smaller pulls.

[Tagihi]

there is loads of these people sometimes i even wonder why they play the game!

[SoothingBell]

If your a summoner or blackmage and see the tank dropping and the healer struggling, then sure, why not? I do it all the time, may not be the MOST effective, but a little heals will assist in keeping that tank up.

What the hell? Psychic on blm/smn? Really? What are you even saying? Like just back off because you sound ridiculous right now.

[Asmodai]

I will start dpsing in pugs when the dps start doing it. Until then, im just going to do what I want.

[Nicolepwned]

Savage says, "hi".

[Aryalandi]

I can understand a great deal of the arguments against dpsing in a party, honestly if you are so pressed with keeping everyone alive that you cannot do anything else then anyone who tries to mock your performance is being foolish.. however if you are finding yourself in a situation where nobody needs healing more than once or twice per 20 seconds and you are just standing there with the excuse that it is only your job to heal well..



That is the last i will say on the subject. Its simply a waste not to take advantage of your awesome ability to adapt to what is going on in front of you by using your attack spells when you can.

It isn't something that ever warrants mistreating party members as long as someone is doing their best but it is kind of sad that some people /won't/ challenge themselves out of fear of failing.

[Canadane]

What the hell? Psychic on blm/smn? Really? What are you even saying? Like just back off because you sound ridiculous right now.

It was somewhat decent in ARR, but after the expansion it never really scaled up so it's currently rather unhelpful.

[SoothingBell]

It was somewhat decent in ARR, but after the expansion it never really scaled up so it's currently rather unhelpful.

I agree with that.

[Jim_Berry]

Unless they change the game completely then if they disable cleric stance it will make healers a snooze fest.

You dont need to be healing all the time as it is, if I can't dps as a healer what am I meant to do during that time? watch Netflix or something?

The issue was that WHM in FFXI struggled to complete quests due to lack of dps when solo. Cleric Stance helps to change this handicap.

[Jim_Berry]

Have to agree with quite a few of you. A healer standing there doing nothing, until hp bars drop till a heal is necessary is just plain laziness and a detriment to the party. They are about as useful as icemages and silent bards.

Blah, blah, blah... Let's see you finish a dungeon without a healer present.