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By having us focus on defense to decrease incoming damage it brings us back to what the role was designed for. The costs/penalties added to stance dancing, once again on my opinion, is being done as an opportunity cost to discourage us from swapping often unless we overhear content.

Based on what we've seen so far they're ultimate goal appears to be defense stance for group, offense stance for solo. Obviously all this goes out the window once we inevitably overgear the content, but that's a ways off.