Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
It also speaks that from someone who remembers that time the biggest concern wasn’t the existence of cleric stance it was that it had no cast time but a recast time

People didn’t like that it could be turned off then accidentally back on again given how bad the servers were back then. That was a way more common complaint than it actually existing

But apparently me remembering ARR is meaningless
If anything to be fair I do remember people complaining about it because they just didn't like it as a system. A lot of people cheered when Stormblood removed it and allowed healers to do damage more freely.
But that's the thing, people didn't greed with this. If anything, it was quite the contrary. Most casuals didn't even use it in dailies because too punishing so you ended up with healers not doing much damage in dungeons, and in savage it generated that weird practice of having a main healer and an off healers for a big chunk of the more casual statics that didn't imagine stance dancing with it.

Either way that's why while I don't hate having some refunds, all of those refunds creeping into the healing game on top of all of its issues is literally making the role even more braindead because no matter what you do, you don't have failure states anymore.