PSA - Cleric Stance and vote kicking

[Naunet]

Once again Arrius. The problem with healer DPS isn't just about shaving minutes off of a dungeon run. Its about contribution. If the tank and DPS are pressing a button every GCD while you're standing there doing nothing for 10+ seconds because nobody needs healing, you're being lazy and not putting in as much effort as the others.

While I do tend to dps in dungeons in this game, I just wanted to respond to this...

I can guarantee you that even if I am not healing, I am alert and present in the instance. I must always keep an eye on people's health pools. I'm on the look-out for wandering pats. I'm preparing to both dodge AoEs and heal the dps who inevitably stand in them. When the class is capable of it, I'm maintaining up-time on buffs as much as possible. For tanks I'm familiar with, I facilitate pulls to keep things moving. This is how it works in any other MMO. A healer may appear to be just standing around, but that doesn't mean the healer is just twiddling their thumbs and watching Netflix. If they are, you'll know soon enough when people start dying. Healing requires constant attention even if it does not require constant button presses, and I think it's a bit silly to measure someone's contribution to the group based on how many buttons they press.

It's a bit unfortunate that they don't have some sort of system that allows us to do both at once as tanks do. Tanks contribute to dps as part of generating aggro. What if we could contribute to healing as we cast offensive abilities or added to dps with healing abilities? A damage shield/healing shield type of system could do something like this.

This should only happen in the form of a single job - a la Chloromancer in Rift.