Cleric Stance Discussion - Is it needed?

[Ghishlain]

Again... isn't Stormblood removing accuracy as a stat entirely?

They said they were looking into making changes to some undesirable stats like Parry and Accuracy. I don't think it was mentioned they were removing Accuracy outright at this juncture.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

Again... isn't Stormblood removing accuracy as a stat entirely?

If that's the case, I haven't seen any official statement/interview/Q&A stating as such. Don't take that to mean it isn't true, though, I just haven't seen anything about it.

[Kiriezaiku]

I do agree that CS should be tossed aside in favor of a less clunky way to heal/dps. With the cries for healers to work harder and dps more (not that I really agree with that), it would be better to see a more smooth way to handle things. I think you'd see a lot more people running a healer with the stance dancing gone.

Just make damage based off mind, BUT lower the potency of damage spells, like 3/4 of what they are now? A whm shouldn't be pulling out blm levels of death anyway, a healer's primary duty is healing.

[RukiaFae]

Again... isn't Stormblood removing accuracy as a stat entirely?

No one knows for sure. He just said they may.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

Just make damage based off mind, BUT lower the potency of damage spells, like 3/4 of what they are now? A whm shouldn't be pulling out blm levels of death anyway, a healer's primary duty is healing.

You need to be careful when you're messing with that though, the entire point of Cleric Stance as it exists is to allow healers a means to kill mobs when doing content solo (MSQ, etc.) If you nix Cleric's and reduce attack potency we could still see things taking an unfairly long amount of time to kill in the overworld for healers. So if they're going to go that route, they'd better do a few rounds of testing for viability in the overworld.

Making WHM my first 60 in 3.0 was painful. I'd rather not repeat the experience or make it worse.

[RukiaFae]

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Thanks. I think they can do so much more with the healers beside slapping band-aids on them.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

No one knows for sure. He just said they may.

Ok. I wasn't sure if it was a done deal but I do recall mention to the effect of the accuracy being removed. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[NaesakiAshwell]

My only hiccup in regards to cleric stance is how easy it is to accidentally double tap it and then boom a tank usually dies cause sods law :c

[Kaethra]

Make it based off of MND. That's what they do in Record Keeper already.

The 'risk' of doing damage is already using a global cooldown for using a damage spell instead of a heal.

[Kiriezaiku]

My only hiccup in regards to cleric stance is how easy it is to accidentally double tap it and then boom a tank usually dies cause sods law :c

I swear the number of times my twitchy trigger finger has done this... T^T