Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Pretty much that, accidentally hitting cleric or worse, double tapping cleric stance so that you dropped it and then immediately activated it again locked you out of your GCD healing for 5 seconds and I'm 99% sure you couldn't click it off. Bene, Lustrate and fairy heals ignored it but it was still pretty damn nerve-racking for less confident healers.

I have it in my head that it originally had no cooldown lockout at all, perhaps pre release in beta? But I'm fairly sure that was changed very early on. I suspect it's an ability that could be implemented in a much neater manner now but eh. Personally I don't think it's worth the inevitable fallout from the large number of players that hated it back then and wouldn't be willing to give a less clunky implementation a chance.
Typical SE taking a BSM tool to a GSM job. One fix I could have seen (other than removing the stance all together, adjusting healing potencies as needed) would have been that when you exited out of Cleric stance it could have had a lasting buff placed upon you so that your healing wouldn't immediately suffered. Say... 15s? Longer than the lockout period but would make it less brutal having that buffer.

Oh well. Its moot. I don't want cleric stance back. I WOULD like a stance dancing class *eyes AST*. Doesn't need to be healer either. It sounds fun if a pita to make.