Should healers now be allowed to play how they choose to play?

[Lambdafish]

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I think you misunderstand the way that cleric stance is designed. It is a high risk, high reward skill that rewards players for playing well, and discourages its use unless the time is right. If cleric stance worked the way you want it to it would promote the idea that healers are meant to DPS as much as they heal on a base level (which isn't true, even though healer DPS is important), if cleric stance was made easier to use, players would actually get worse because they would feel safe in cleric stance all the time.

I don't know how the situation happened that you are describing, but it sounds like the design of cleric is not at fault, whether it is you, your co-healer, your tank or just plain bad luck, cleric stance is not at fault (though it very much reads as you messing up and being in cleric stance at the wrong time, try resolving it by communicating with your party, rather than bitching about the design of a skill on the forums).

Oh and for the record, I'm a tank, I'm not overly protective of a skill for a role I don't play, though you are welcome to cry bias as much as you like.