Possible alteration to Cleric Stance

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Accuracy is right now the only stat that actually requires thought while gearing out.

Not everything that requires thought is interesting or fun, though, and Accuracy is neither of those. That's the point at least I was making.

I'm just saying that the people shouting to get rid of Accuracy without offering any sort of alternative means of making gear progression interesting and varied are completely missing the point.

Gear progression is neither interesting nor varied, because Accuracy essentially removes a great deal of choice from gearing progression, instead of adding any. How is this missing the point when it is the very thing I was arguing?

However Accuracy is a good way to arbitrarily limit Healer DPS to a curve that satisfies the dev team.

It's not a good way to do that. In fact, it's one of the absolutely worst ways to do it.

If the dev team thinks healer DPS is a problem (which, as far as I'm aware, they don't, they just don't want healer DPS to be required to clear content, as it was in the second half of Gordias Savage during early progression), then this should be fixed with encounter design, and not by punishing healers who want to do something when there's no one to heal with heavy RNG.

Give us fights where it's actually required to be healing nearly 100% of the time. Make it extremely risky to hop into Cleric Stance because someone might die in the two GCDs until you can deactivate it again. Or give us something meaningful to do other than DPSing while we don't have to heal (AST's cards are probably the closest thing we currently have in this regard). Hell, even straight out nerfing healer damage would be a better way to go about reducing healer DPS. The current situation is complete bullshit.