If tank damage is now based on VIT, why do healers still have Cleric Stance?

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Ummmm.. the entire 1-60 questing experience is one huge set of DPS tests. Without DPS spells, you could not level. Period. Of course they gave CNJ/WHM damage spells for this solo content.

That clever players found a use for this stance in dungeon instances was not intentional, but it is what it is. I have no opinion in the quarrel about its use.

There are no high DPS checks in story content. If SE didn't intend healers to do good DPS, they would have stopped at Stone and just let them slowly kill anything while healing themselves. The fact that healer got super strong aoe spells like Holy, Aero III, Assize, Gravity, Bane etc., along with more DPS skills after 50 and Cleric Stance being usable in combat clearly shows that healers were intended to be able to contribute significant DPS in both solo and group content. SE might not absolutely require healer DPS to clear content, but healers were definitely intended to be able to contribute a lot in dungeons if you'd just look at the skills.