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

[Remus]

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There is nothing wrong with using that time to do something else, but what annoys me is when people believe that they designed the game like this to have Healers DPS because they didn't its just a flaw in their design when it comes to fights. There doesn't need to be any fix i believe healers are not broken they are working quite well SE even said you generally may want to use Healer DPS if your "only" missing the DPS Check by a bit but don't make it seem mandatory. People just need to remember though if you see a Healer in a expert dungeon don't pressure them in DPSing it's just a Expert Dungeon nothing hard its not a raid where you need every bit of DPS to beat the check.

Hey i'm not here to argue anyway :P

[KaitlanKela]

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FTR, I never call my healers out for not DPSing. Kinda just assume they're uncomfortable with it and give them the benefit of the doubt.

However, I DPS when I play SCH and if someone asked me for advice I would tell them to learn to do it 10/10.

The fact that the devs don't design the fights with it in mind only means that it can be cleared without it, not that they don't expect you to do it. Most dungeons can be cleared without the use of most abilities; honestly, emnity combo + healing + dps combo + mechanics = clear on pretty much all story mode dungeons, even at entry ilvl requirements. By this definition all situational abilities are "optional." But situational abilities are 50% of every jobs given toolkit. The game IS in fact designed for characters to use situational skills to clear objectives faster. Healer DPS = situational skills.

[Kaurie]

FTR, I never call my healers out for not DPSing. Kinda just assume they're uncomfortable with it and give them the benefit of the doubt.

However, I DPS when I play SCH and if someone asked me for advice I would tell them to learn to do it 10/10.

The fact that the devs don't design the fights with it in mind only means that it can be cleared without it, not that they don't expect you to do it. Most dungeons can be cleared without the use of most abilities; honestly, emnity combo + healing + dps combo + mechanics = clear on pretty much all story mode dungeons, even at entry ilvl requirements. By this definition all situational abilities are "optional." But situational abilities are 50% of every jobs given toolkit. The game IS in fact designed for characters to use situational skills to clear objectives faster. Healer DPS = situational skills.

TLDR Devs design content for scrubs. Don't be a scrub.

[Dante_V]

Removing and making the attack spells scale with MND instead isn't a nerf. It's just an unnecessary extra button to press to make DPS/Healing (yea in that order cause incoming damage since HW is so low) healer don't even expect to heal anymore. That that one skill cause many deaths on both sides players and mobs. If healers' at spells scaled of MND then wouldn't that encourage healer only healers to maybe try dpsing? Since there would be no need for CS.

Unless they adjusted the potencies of every healer attack it would be a nerf to dps as you get a bonus from CS of 10% so directly converting the Int to MND wouldn't account for that. Also there is a 20% healing decrease while in CS which is the penalty trade off. The conversion doesn't account for this either. It negates the risk reward system at play in the game.

[Felis]

Unless they adjusted the potencies of every healer attack it would be a nerf to dps as you get a bonus from CS of 10% so directly converting the Int to MND wouldn't account for that. Also there is a 20% healing decrease while in CS which is the penalty trade off. The conversion doesn't account for this either. It negates the risk reward system at play in the game.

Everytime the healer cast a damage spell he can get a debuff that decrease the healing power by 20% during the next 10 sec.

[Kaurie]

Everytime the healer cast a damage spell he can get a debuff that decrease the healing power by 20% during the next 10 sec.

Now that would be quite the nerf.

[Lexia]

It's not even HARD to stance dance.

Did someone say it was?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I love the skill, but LAG screws me over some times with it.

I click to turn it off, it doesn't turn off and I don't notice in time.

[KaitlanKela]

Did someone say it was?

I guess you didn't say it was too hard. Maybe you're just lazy. Sorry. I guess I assumed you actually want to try and be good and were struggling with it.

[Waliel]

However, what I meant by "easing it up" is by making it meta: removing Cleric stance and making MND a single stat will, in essence, make it even more risky because you are no more stopped by swapping stances.

I may be missing something here, but removing the only thing that makes DPS risky as a healer would somehow make it riskier?