Quote Originally Posted by Sindele View Post
I don't even really mind stances when they change how you play and allow you to prioritize what you're doing at the moment. The thing about Cleric Stance is that it is not really choosing your priority - it is choosing what you are permitted to do, because everything in the other mode becomes worthless when you activate it and vice versa.

I don't think Deliverance/Defiance would be nearly so fondly remembered if you could only press your aggro 1-2-3 and mitigations in Defiance and everything else except those in Deliverance. Maybe I'm wrong about that - but if I am, then I will at least die on this hill swearing that everyone who would still remember it fondly like that has terrible taste.
Cleric stance is exactly that : a risk-reward skill you had to "commit" to in order to optimize your dps. So you kinda had to plan for damage beforehand. But this was also a time when there were a few more sources of damage, and many more skills available to the healer, especially for scholar. Swap stance, dump all your cds/dots, then do whatever. It was like a mini burst and mini burst of adrenaline.

In the current encounter design, you'd most likely just use it at specific times throughout the fight.