Why is stoneskin so... well, ugly?

[Jican]

So SS isn't worth casting because it's ugly? Wow.

[Eclair_Xysha]

I agree that the looks bore you... but it don't bother me. Lol my job is to heal, then I'll heal using what ever SE gives me to heal.

If no one SS me as a tank however, I do it myself. I even SS as a tank in raids and instances. Even more so if the other tank is a war. We tanks can't parry magic yo. But hey look! We can stoneskin gaizz! Healers do you love us now that we're kinda helping you? No? Well okay we'll just sit in a corner then...

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

I agree that the looks bore you... but it don't bother me. Lol my job is to heal, then I'll heal using what ever SE gives me to heal.

Healers do you love us now that we're kinda helping you?

I always appreciate paladins that do that!

[Holy-chan]

Personally, in regular dungeons, most of the time I use it on everyone except the tank. That way, if by any chance they take damage, the damage in question will be mitigated, allowing me to keep healing the tank as necessary or giving me more time to heal that person before they die horribly from being mobbed or something.

If I know that the tank does big mobbing, I will Stone Skin the tank. If the tank takes every group of monsters one at a time, it's not necessary.

In boss fights, I use Stone Skin on everyone at the start, but rarely bother to cast it again if they lose it. In fights with unavoidable damage (i.e. Titan HM), I don't bother at all.

Unless the person was freshly revived, in which case I'll always try to have it on the person in question until the resurrection debuff wears off.

As for the looks of the spell... well, it's called "Stone" Skin, and it looks that way. No issue there, as far as I'm concerned.

[Kaethra]

SS is an awesome utility. One thing that's great about having a bajillion classes to 50 is having insight to how certain things go. For example, the Ultima Weapon in Praetorium. I keep SS up on all Melee DPS. Why? Because if it absorbs all of the damage from his pulsing attack, they don't get knocked back. DPS that aren't knocked back are doing more DPS. So indirectly, I'm increasing the damage of the group by doing such.

Another time it is really useful is on a Gladiator, Paladin, or Marauder (not Warrior), you SS before a 3+ mob group and you have a REALLY easy time holding agro. You won't need heals for a few seconds and that means no healing threat going to the healer while you work on gathering them up.

[AldoVonAlexandros]

I dare u to do LEx without stoneskin =)

[Omega065]

As a WHM SS is my best friend besides regen and its very powerful I'm not very good at pre casting SS (but I am practicing) but it saves the day when I can get it out in time like in Titan hm and EX or other primal battles and on how it looks I mean it's called stone skin so i'm not surprised on how it looks.

[Sebazy]

Stoneskin is very powerful part of our toolkit, I tanked titan in 2.0 as whm and stone skinning was one of the abilities that made it possible.

[Daniolaut]

Why is stoneskin so... well, ugly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1m0B_OTjsk&t=08m23s


Just saying...

(I personally like it now.)

[Defteros]

I spam Stoneskin on the party during the last boss of Dzemael Darkhold.

mostly on the last part of the fight.