Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
You would have to deal with the fact they'd still have cure/cureII/cureIII/esuna as a dps though, that seems a bit much, especially for a job with what you propose as mp restoration mechanics. If you could limit their MND stat somehow this would work; it'd require them to cleric stance to have high mnd, but then suffer the -20% cure potency.
This is never going to be a problem for one reason that a lot of people seem to not realize: If GEO is a damage-dealing class, they're not going to be using any gear with MND on it; their gear selection is going to be limited to INT gear, as it should be, because INT gear has stats that favor dealing DPS. You don't see ACC on any gear with MND on it. So sure, they'll still have access to the Cure and Medica spells, but they don't heal for shit anymore (think Physick in the hands of a SMN or BLM) and casting them will cost the GEO important time and MP that could be used for dealing damage.

Even keeping Cleric Stance as is wouldn't do anything, because even if your boat-load of INT is swapped with your MND stat, you're still receiving a 20% healing potency penalty. And, honestly, I doubt you'd ever have Cleric Stance as a GEO. My guess is it would get reworked into some kind of buff that helped with MP recovery, because Cleric Stance is only for healers, as it's the tool that allows a healer (who is decked out in MND gear) to convert that healing power into offensive power so they can do solo stuff. And the reason Cleric Stance should be converted into some MP recovery tool is because every job should be able to perform it's role even before that job is available. What I mean by this is, every job should be able to adequately perform it's role in content that's available prior to Lv30 (level capped and such). A SCH can still be a healer prior to getting any SCH abilities because of it's healing fairies and the fact that it gets Physick at Lv4. A GEO can still be a magic DD class because it has access to Stone and Aero very early, but it has no way to manage MP and I don't think swapping Shroud of Saints with Cleric Stance is the best idea because Cleric Stance is still useless to a GEO.