I'll chime in too!

1) I do Cleric Stance like this all the time, especially lower level dungeons as you can usually just hit the tank with Regen and then DPS yourself as generally the other DPS's don't take that much damage. Later on as well it is still helpful as there's many times where you don't need to be healing non stop at 50 so keeps you busy. You just have to time it and what not to make sure that if something goes south, you can get out of it and heal the tank, as you never would want someone to die because you were DPSing. It's also helpful in bosses like Ifrit with the nails, or Titan with his heart, as sometimes you get bad DPSs that just don't attack them, so since no one really takes tons of damage at that stage, I will flip to CS and then attack them as well just to help out.



2) I can't comment on this as I haven't done coils yet but for me personally I have no interest in Scholar so never played it.

3) I think chances are the problems are due to it being low level like the others said. You're going to get people who just started playing, saw the description of a tank and then picked that, having no idea what to do. My first class was BLM, and as this was my first MMO I didn't even know what roles like tank, healer etc were. As you progress more it will change, just don't over-cure as that will cause you to pull aggro. Also if you use Regen, always give it a bit after the tank pulls before you hit it, so that he has full control of aggro.

4) Agreed with the last poster, Swiftcast you definitely need. I use it 95% of the time for rez, but there's tons of other times you'll want it. To spam Holy quickly is one, or other times I find myself using it is if the party takes huge damage that you weren't ready for, or just huge damage in general where everyone's HP drops really low, I'll swiftcast and then Medica II, sometimes followed up with a normal Medica. There's also Surecast but I find I've never used that and haven't ever had a need for it. When I played as BLM you were non stop getting your spells interrupted, but I don't notice that with WHM.

5) Hard to say on this one, not sure what happens at 60. For me I did BRD first so I had done a bunch at 50 already and had tons of tomes so I was pretty geared hitting 50 as WHM. I would say though Titan HM not EX as a basic test of skills, as it has dodging, pre-emptive healing when Titan jumps in the air and so on. I say not EX because I'm not even kidding I've tried it at least 10 times via DF and every single time we've had to vote abandon because the party has no idea what they are doing, and wipes so much that the gear is shot. I've all but given up on trying it, as it doesn't even seem that hard but no one ever knows the fight and it's become a huge waste of time for me spending 30 mins on it just to have everyone abandon.