Cleric Stance CD

[KitomiSaitichi]

It's actually pretty easy. My brain got upgraded to always keep track if it's on or off inside my head. When I press it, my brain knows if its on or off. You can become less dependent on watching your bar and buff icons if you hide them in your UI. Secondly, if you use a macro with Stone II and Stone I embedded inside it, you will learn to no longer spam buttons as you quickly realize how futile your character is when its just standing there blabbing its head off to an error message that you interrupted the cast by doublepressing it.

I trained myself to watch the sound effect and floating buff/debuff icon with words before performing any other action. The benefit of this is that you develop a high level of situational awareness when you look at your character, the screen and the environment for the upcoming boss move/your DPS' header position and what skills everyone is using while simultaneously micromanaging the microseconds that are ticking by as you predict incoming damage, speed of mob death rate, when the upcoming AoE cones are going to arrive and which buttons to press and when on what ally. I went off a tangent, in summary, you get better or are forced to get better when cleric stance penalizes you or causes a tradeoff to be temporally and situationally aware. If I accidentally toggle cleric stance on, I know to wait 2 and a half counts of damage before having to swiftcast a heal.

The alternative solution is to practice delayed gratification and increase your aptitude in high-level executive thinking in real life. This is exactly what cleric stance is, the epitome and the essence of due diligence.

You don't go for -the- cookie, you think before you act, you think before you talk, you plan and anticipate before executing, you don't rely on speedy FPS gimmicky bullet trigger uppidity happidity DPS 1-2-3-4-5 finger pressings. Risk vs reward.

So no, keep it as it is. Of course I had my moments where a DPS decides to eat up a cleave or two and I couldn't heal just in time for the upcoming boss AoE - but these are rare. If I see a DPS continually being reckless, I'll slap a regen on them and call it a day. A stoneskin if they fail every mechanic, and a pre-loaded cure II with cleric off when I see the final sting going off.