Cleric stance needs change just for melding sake as healer

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No reasonable person will suggest you let people die just to push your own DPS. Keeping the group alive is the absolute bare minimum, your baseline, it's not even worth mentioning.

Sure, no reasonable person would. Unfortunately, many players both in game and on the forums have little to no problems with leaving a DPS dead, regardless of the circumstances of it's death, whether it be a string of unavoidable AoE that both healers involved chose to DPS through regardless of DPS dying, or from a momentary misstep, or unexpected lag spike. Unfortunately, people that demand healers DPS also are those that are too lazy to properly perform their own tasks, choosing instead to shunt the majority of the damage dealing on a non DPS class because that's the path of least resistance. Now, a DPSing healer may be nice, but many times, such players are incapable of reacting to unexpected complications, or simply choose to ignore them in order to teach a poorly taught lesson. While in theory a healer should be good enough to DPS and keep everyone alive, such a situation is rarely, if ever, true in practice.