Cleric stance needs change just for melding sake as healer

[Knoahl]

I don't understand why White Mage players complain about this. AST has a lot more gameplay based around supporting the party, and so long as you maintain combusts (And throw out malefic ) You contribute a lot with the card buffs. My head hurts, it really just sounds like people want WHM to be as easy as possible. .___.

[technole]

It's mainly stand-around White Mage players that are afraid to Cleric Stance, maybe they might dabble in maybe a Fluid Aura here and there that complain. Yet, White Mage has the best burst DPS of all the healers and that is why I stand by the assertion that ACC is the de-facto best melding strat if you are touching end-game content like extreme primals and savage.

If you want to stand around and do nothing but heal in causal content, just overmeld Parry and call it a day.

[BroodingFicus]

Q: Healers seem to miss their attacks quite frequently in dungeons released in Patch 3.2. Do you have plans to adjust healer accuracy?

A: When it comes to dungeons, our original plan was that healers should be be able to hit the monsters without worrying too much about accuracy, so we’ll make adjustment to this so you don’t need to worry as much about it.

As for raids, we don’t want to create instances where healers are forced to deal damage, but we understand some groups use this in their raid strategy and therefore have their members meld gear with accuracy.

We’re currently debating within the debating with the dv. team regarding accuracy, so please wait a bit longer.

Quoted out of the live letter. Seems like they never intended casual content to force healers into accuracy melds to be effective dps wise and an adjustment is coming. Sounds like, as many people here wanted, they intended the choice of accuracy vs healing stats to come into play during raids based on job/composition/strategy etc and not to so obviously impact our ability to stance dance efficiently in things like expert roulette. Personally I'm glad to hear it. For people who never touch anything higher than expert, they won't have to worry about melds and materia etc which can get pretty pricey and which frankly aren't necessary to steam roll the new dungeons. For high level players they can make the call appropriately without worrying if that might negatively effect them in expert roulette.

[CorbinDallas]

I don't understand why White Mage players complain about this. AST has a lot more gameplay based around supporting the party, and so long as you maintain combusts (And throw out malefic ) You contribute a lot with the card buffs. My head hurts, it really just sounds like people want WHM to be as easy as possible. .___.

You say that when half your DPS abilities, which also happen to be your highest potency, don't have an accuracy check. Know how many WHM DPS abilities have an accuracy check? All of them. There is every chance we can throw our entire DPS toolkit at a mob and miss everything. SCH/AST? No big deal; Bio, Bio2, Shadowflare, Combust, and Combust2 cannot miss.

[Rawrz]

Half of our attacks can miss making it so that we deal less damage? I melded to the 600 acc marker so none of my skills can miss on sch... if I switch to my whm nothing misses either. Whether it's 50% of my skills that are 100% accuracy or 0% I'm going to get enough accuracy to be 100%. Pretty simple.

[Thekk]

I feel that one point that has been overlooked so far in this thread is the fact that to reach the accuracy cap, you need to overmeld some gear. That is only possible with the crafted 220 gear. It might not matter that much at this point where you're mostly going to be using 220 gear anyway, but once you start taking the 240 gear you can't equip into account, it's a lot more than a few secondary stats you're losing.

[Ghishlain]

I feel that one point that has been overlooked so far in this thread is the fact that to reach the accuracy cap, you need to overmeld some gear. That is only possible with the crafted 220 gear. It might not matter that much at this point where you're mostly going to be using 220 gear anyway, but once you start taking the 240 gear you can't equip into account, it's a lot more than a few secondary stats you're losing.

You can reach accuracy cap in A8S in full i240s if all slots are melded with T5 Accuracy materia and using good accuracy food to go with it. I think even without food you can get to A6S accuracy cap on fully melded T5s.

Overmlds will most likely be a concern on the next raid tier, but for most other content you should be okay without them.

[Knoahl]

You say that when half your DPS abilities, which also happen to be your highest potency, don't have an accuracy check. Know how many WHM DPS abilities have an accuracy check? All of them. There is every chance we can throw our entire DPS toolkit at a mob and miss everything. SCH/AST? No big deal; Bio, Bio2, Shadowflare, Combust, and Combust2 cannot miss.

But Malefic, Aero and gravity can. I was just suggesting those who "don't want to dps as WHM" could play AST and have more involvement with less effort in DPSing. I should have quoted a post to make that more clear ^^

[AeraLure]

I disagree on the change, and I am an offensive-minded healer. I actually liked that I had to think about melds and what my role would be, possibly having a right side set for DPS-oriented speed 4-man runs and a heal-oriented 8-man/raid setup. I dislike the overly simplified stats in this game and they are even backpedaling a little on this now. Fwiw I melded a few ACCs to some right side gear and never missed in EX after that. I didn't even go overboard with it and if I ever needed I could swap a couple pieces out for something more heal oriented. Fail to see the problem really, especially for EX runs, but feel there should be some missing on all levels if you go in without a single ACC meld. *shrugs*

[SWB]

I dont mind melding accuracy materia into my gear. I mind having to meld all accuracy 5 materia into all my slots, and eat HQ grilled sweetfish just to be able to hit all accuracy caps in the game. Playing a scholar in raid progress means you are required to be able to dps, and missing means less dps and makes you look inferior to another scholar. This isnt Se's fault in any way but the current meta, which is fine; Although because of the meta, there's this disconnect between how SE wants healers to be play, and how they're actually being played.

Requiring a scholar to uphold those requirements to dps, means no crit materia, no crit food, and relying wholeheartedly on the stats the gear provides.

Secondly, this also cripples main healers, that need to pull all the weight of dps healers because dps healers arent melded to heal.

I feel like this issue is very parallel to tanks having to choose between dps and vitality before 3.2, but i believe SE can figure out the best course of action, and maybe recognize that healers need accuracy on gear, or another means of easily hitting the caps.