Shadowbringers Healer Role: Complaints, Feedback, and Suggestions

[Deceptus]

Goanna have to poke at some stuff here.

Cleric stance is BAD design - it was mainly removed because Scholars who had % heals could stay in cleric stance and create a DPS disparity. When Cleric Stance was changed to just a DPS buff, it still meant to just throw all your high damaging skills in that opener. For the most part, Cleric stance offers nothing to the table besides the mentality that you have to be more careful when DPSing if you can't heal.
The pope stance you suggested would work terribly for white mage since they mainly rely on GCD actions as well (Lilies being on the GCD and used for Heals, weaving and Afflatus Misery). Removing it in ShB is better since it frees all players and encourages them to DPS when healing isn't needed, breaking the mindset of a 'dps stance' and 'heal stance' when in reality there isn't one set in stone as a fight is constantly changing when your party members eat mechanics.

And I take issue with your blanket statement that Cleric Stance was Bad Design.

It was about as egregious as letting tanks sit outside of tank stance to do more DPS. It made them more squishy.

Cleric Stance and Tanks outside of Tank Stance was all about risk vs reward.