Optimal way to play both Sch and Smn?

[amnie]

I'm not really at this point yet since my acn is only lvl 32, but I've been thinking about putting everything in INT and using cleric stance on SCH. that would still allow me to use swiftcast, surecast and protect. am I missing anything here? any skill I absolutely .must. have that won't allow me to use cleric stance? I've tried asking this in several topics before but people either ignored it or yelled at me, which makes me automatically not take them seriously -.-

[MACEenyo]

I'm not really at this point yet since my acn is only lvl 32, but I've been thinking about putting everything in INT and using cleric stance on SCH. that would still allow me to use swiftcast, surecast and protect. am I missing anything here? any skill I absolutely .must. have that won't allow me to use cleric stance? I've tried asking this in several topics before but people either ignored it or yelled at me, which makes me automatically not take them seriously -.-

Cleric stance reduces healing by 20%.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Cleric_Stance

[synaesthetic]

I'm not really at this point yet since my acn is only lvl 32, but I've been thinking about putting everything in INT and using cleric stance on SCH. that would still allow me to use swiftcast, surecast and protect. am I missing anything here? any skill I absolutely .must. have that won't allow me to use cleric stance? I've tried asking this in several topics before but people either ignored it or yelled at me, which makes me automatically not take them seriously -.-

This doesn't work because Cleric Stance does not only swap your INT and MND attributes, it also increases offensive magic potency by 10% and reduces healing potency by 20%. So even if you wind up having more MND by using it, you're still taking a 20% hit to healing throughput. Cleric Stance on SCH is used exactly the same way it's used on WHM--for when you want to deal damage.

[amnie]

This doesn't work because Cleric Stance does not only swap your INT and MND attributes, it also increases offensive magic potency by 10% and reduces healing potency by 20%. So even if you wind up having more MND by using it, you're still taking a 20% hit to healing throughput. Cleric Stance on SCH is used exactly the same way it's used on WHM--for when you want to deal damage.

thanks for not treating me like a little child for a harmless question

Err... I think you're not quite getting what Cleric's Stance does

eerrrrr.... I think you're not quite getting why I was asking.

[Tam_Hawkins]

I'm not really at this point yet since my acn is only lvl 32, but I've been thinking about putting everything in INT and using cleric stance on SCH. that would still allow me to use swiftcast, surecast and protect. am I missing anything here? any skill I absolutely .must. have that won't allow me to use cleric stance? I've tried asking this in several topics before but people either ignored it or yelled at me, which makes me automatically not take them seriously -.-

Wouldn't cleric stance also affect the stats you get srom Equipment? In which case you would Need to wear int gear on your sch and as far as I know that is not possible for everything over Ilvl 70 (I could be wrong here i haven't played the mage classes yet)