Accuracy bonus while I'm cleric stance?

[Zfz]

Tanks are getting the Accuracy bonus because tanks are forced by design to attack from the front. Healers are not. In fact, healer dps was never part of the consideration in tuning raid encounters. You are free to dps, and if you feel you want to emphasize your dps, you are free to stack Accuracy. But it will not be given to healers because it was never part of the healer's design.

For open world content and regular dungeons, existing Accuracy on gear should be more than enough.

[jumanjilover89]

Tanks are getting the Accuracy bonus because tanks are forced by design to attack from the front. Healers are not. In fact, healer dps was never part of the consideration in tuning raid encounters. You are free to dps, and if you feel you want to emphasize your dps, you are free to stack Accuracy. But it will not be given to healers because it was never part of the healer's design.

For open world content and regular dungeons, existing Accuracy on gear should be more than enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuhgHzuPYiI

[Zaft]

Tanks are getting the Accuracy bonus because tanks are forced by design to attack from the front. Healers are not. In fact, healer dps was never part of the consideration in tuning raid encounters. You are free to dps, and if you feel you want to emphasize your dps, you are free to stack Accuracy. But it will not be given to healers because it was never part of the healer's design.

For open world content and regular dungeons, existing Accuracy on gear should be more than enough.

The way things are originally designed is not always the way things work out. It's important for a company to be flexible and go with the tide, not against it.

[Ultimatecalibur]

One of the main reasons each tank stance is getting an accuracy boost is to cover the difference between OT rear/flank accuracy needs and MT front accuracy needs. Tanks either had to much when OT, hurting DpS stats, or not enough while MT, hurting their ability to generate and maintain enmity.

Healer gear design paradigms may be changing to account for the new expectation of Healer DpS in Hard content such as Alexander HM. Healer gear may end up with the needed accuracy without requiring a bonus from a stance.

[Nihility]

Unless the tank stance is literally 100% accuracy their will still be disparity in accuracy needs between front and sides.
Tank gear needs to have some accuracy almost like a gauge, otherwise you could just get accuracy-less crafted gear and overmeld it with pure tank stats and be relatively way too strong
throw in accuracy needs and all of a sudden the higher level tank gear becomes necessary for threat management, having a built in boost just lets you divert some of those stats to more tank oriented ones

Healers on the other hand are meant to heal with the vast majority of their time but they also have some debuffs and moments where doing damage as best they can might be necessary.
It just makes sense for healer offensive spells to have a built in never miss for mechanics sake, honestly doesn't even need to be tied to cleric stance
the only one that this would even cause issues for is scholar since they share skills with a dps yet somehow they're the one that already has it

[Zfz]

The way things are originally designed is not always the way things work out. It's important for a company to be flexible and go with the tide, not against it.

There is no tide. The design itself included the freedom for healers to contribute dps. It was deliberately left open as an option. Now if Crusader Stance gets an Accuracy bonus, it could be taken to mean an official sanction to the notion that healers "should" dps during raid encounters.

And this freedom has two sides. On the one side, it means you are free to dps as a healer. On the reverse side, it means you are free to "not dps" as a healer. That freedom of choice is part of the design, and giving an accuracy bonus most likely will result in players picking up the wrong notions.

Of course, it can be argued that as an option, it makes sense to give the Accuracy bonus. But even now, people are already mistakenly claiming that the bare existence of the Crusader stance means healers are supposed to contribute dps.

So no, unless Yoshi-P takes a turn on his view of things, healers won't be getting an Accuracy bonus. It is as important to protect a play style choice as it is to promote another.

moments where doing damage as best they can might be necessary.

It is already revealed by Yoshi-P himself that all raid encounters are tuned with absolutely zero healer dps. They deliberately left the option open for healers to do dps and help an under-geared party clear content that otherwise is not supposed to be cleared, but that is left open for the top players chasing world firsts. Not for the average player.

So by design, there is no moments where healers doing damage becomes "necessary".

I'm not completely against healers getting an accuracy bonus. But I do like to see the playstyle of healers just focusing on healing left open, as is the original design intent.

[Nihility]

It is already revealed by Yoshi-P himself that all raid encounters are tuned with absolutely zero healer dps. They deliberately left the option open for healers to do dps and help an under-geared party clear content that otherwise is not supposed to be cleared, but that is left open for the top players chasing world firsts. Not for the average player.

So by design, there is no moments where healers doing damage becomes "necessary".

I'm not completely against healers getting an accuracy bonus. But I do like to see the playstyle of healers just focusing on healing left open, as is the original design intent.

Your just reinforcing the same thing I said taken to a more extreme viewpoint
If healers are designed to never do dps why put little breadcrumbs of accuracy all over high end healing gear to begin with?
Wasted stats for 100% of what they are meant to do

[Erendis]

For open world content and regular dungeons, existing Accuracy on gear should be more than enough.

Not at all. When I did Making Waves to unlock CT, my attacks as WHM kept missing 99 % of the time...

[Gallus]

As long as I can DPS reliably in endgame content with my SCH with a 90-100% chance of hitting I'm fine. Whether it's via accuracy added from a relic weapon and food, or an accuracy passive bonus from cleric stance I don't care. I don't like twiddling thumbs in endgame content when I know the boss is gonna be autoattacking for the next 10 seconds.

[Onikimaru]

I don't play a healer much but this is a great idea!. +1