Yoshi P to Mr.Happy "Heal DPS is not mandatory and no expectation for Healer to DPS!"

[SaitoHikari]

Eh, the only thing that ever makes me think twice about dpsing as my AST is whether I can spare the gcds to switch the stance on and off or, more prevalent with my dumb self: Whether i remember to turn it off.

If they're removing that burden, why wouldn't you dps? I'm gonna go buck wild.

Heh, nice way to look at it.

The one thing that REALLY worries me about the Cleric Stance removal though is that it WILL lead to Assize generating HUGE amounts of emnity. With Cleric Stance, Assize can only ever instantly heal a significant chunk of the party's HP, or inflict truckloads of damage. With the removal of the Cleric Stance limitation, it can now do BOTH at once. Just imagine what's going to happen. You're probably going to straight up die using it in your opener.

This isn't even considering that Assize's cooldown got reduced to 60 seconds, and WHMs already have enough problems with emnity management as is.