Quote Originally Posted by Kayokane View Post
I'm glad you've never had the experience of accidentally double clicking Cleric's Stance off and back on again when you needed to heal, that combined with Hallowed Ground delay caused many a wipe back in the day. 5 seconds is a long time when you need to heal now.

Cleric's Stances CD only applied when turning Cleric's Stance on, not when turning it off. I guess you must have done a hotbar swap macro so you didn't need to deal with the possible recast?
As I said, I'm not trying to invalidate people's own personal experiences with Cleric Stance. I know it's a flashpoint-topic for a reason, even amongst people who actually were around to use it (rather than just people parroting hearsay from a time when they weren't actually playing).

However, speaking personally, this just wasn't an issue. I guess I just hit my keys differently?

I mean yes, double-taps or key-errors could accidentally happen, same as fat-fingering Deliverance or Defiance at the wrong time. But it wasn't some kind of chronic disaster-causing nightmare, and if "Uh, everyone, I accidentally went back into Cleric" did cause a wipe, it was rare enough to be just be a "lol... okay, let's pull again" moment, same as people messing up anything else in current FFXIV (like, "Oops, I just pressed Benediction" or "Oops, I stood on NW when I was assigned to NE").

All that said, I feel like current FFXIV also has more design-safeguards for things like this anyway, probably as an evolutionary response to these kinds of issues. For example, splitting Cleric Stance into 2 Actions that flip-over with each other — like current Tank Stances — with a minimum brief recast locking the swap, could probably go a long way to prevent the kind of double-taps that you experienced.