Cleric stance needs change just for melding sake as healer

[Einheri]

So, everyone else has to use their stat allowance on accuracy but it's not fair that a healer needs to use their materia slots for accuracy? Is that the debate being waged here?

And the op would give up the 10% bonus to feel better about thier melds?

[AlphaSonic]

I think White Mage should get a trait that gives Cleric 10% accuracy or something like that. (It can replace quickstone that is really useless)

[technole]

Being able to meld ACC is a positive gain for healers, it's not a negative because we can decide how much we want as you can decide to gear up through crafted and/or tome gear so you have options. Considering in the past we didn't have the base option to get closer to accuracy cap without crafted gear, which wasn't all that great then. Before 3.0, healer gear just had nimble ACC which wasn't even close to final coil caps.

Now that even base dungeon ACC is higher you are finally seeing non-raiders starting to crop up about misses and caring more about the stat now. Yet you didn't hear a peep then, but yet we've been dealing with this at end-game level forever. Now that we get that option to make up ground on ACC with melding that also doesn't compromise our MND in a meaningful way, the difference is night-and-day. Yet there is still room to meld other secondaries like Crit and PIE where applicable especially on i220 crafted gear.

[Moqi]

+1 for OP. Accuracy overall is a stupid stat to have in the first place, but it's even worse for healers because if you do decide to DPS, you actually have to give up secondary stats that could go towards your healing and that is just absurd. Choosing to DPS should not punish your healing stats.

It's really all just more gating and lockouts.

[AngelicSence]

I think White Mage should get a trait that gives Cleric 10% accuracy or something like that. (It can replace quickstone that is really useless)

True. But developers want to keep it balanced. So CS would have the same effect on all healers. I don't really agree with OP that CS 10% damage should be replaced with 10% accuracy. You have around 370 accuracy without melding. 10% of that will be 37 accuracy which is pretty meh. 10% damage on other hand, is pretty huge.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

+1 for OP. Accuracy overall is a stupid stat to have in the first place, but it's even worse for healers because if you do decide to DPS, you actually have to give up secondary stats that could go towards your healing and that is just absurd. Choosing to DPS should not punish your healing stats.

It's really all just more gating and lockouts.

You realize the piddling amount of secondary stats healers burn is nothing compared to the secondary stats tanks and melee have to burn, right? Maybe 200. Top.

[Moqi]

That is not an excuse to justify a terrible system, even if it were true. If "well it's not as bad as x" is all it's got, it speaks for itself.

[Amaret]

I'm totally fine with the way it is right now. You can easily reach the cap with melding. (3.0 was horrible!)
The Sub Stats are pretty weak nowadays for healers. And since you are able to only meld save slots, you won't gain that much that its worthy affecting healing.

The only thing i fear is the higher accuracy needed for 3.6 .

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

The point is that every job needs to give up X amount of points to accuracy in order to work at their optimum. Some people enjoy this, some people don't want any kind of a cost associated and just want to have the biggest numbers possible at all times, with minimal planning or consideration.

[Moqi]

That is not the point at all. If everyone needed to just give up some points for accuracy they might as well get rid of it and lower the amount of melds possible, as it would be the same thing, but it's not.