Quote Originally Posted by Egnasya View Post
Well you don't know the others' mind set. Your healer might simply feel uncomfortable switching to Cleric Stance, fearing to be unable to bring their healing when needed. A legitimate issue when you're not entirely familiar with healing in this game. Personally I never try DPSing as healer until I get a feeling for those random players in my group.


Generally I do not think it is our place to judge how others play, at least not as long as things go fine. If that's not the case you may start giving advice (!), not before. Who cares if you agree on how Fred Anonymous uses his CDs as long as that doesn't wipe you? I certainly do not, and I don't want others to judge my play style just as well. There is no definite right or wrong to these things, as much as some want everyone to play by the doctrine of class guides.
This! Particularly during the first half of a duty, I hold off on DPSing to gauge how much damage the group takes and how much I'm needed. Once/ if I'm comfortable, you'll get your gosh darn DPS. If you still see me not turning on CS but you're not taking much damage, more likely than not there'll be a special snowflake in the group who drops to 50% the minute I start to cast Stone.

It's better I stand there for an extra two seconds and keep everyone topped up rather than throwing out a flimsy Stone and end up with half the DPS on low HP just to please grouchy players.

Really, I've seen a lot of players whose actions make me go "...?", but if they're doing their job, it's not my place to tell them how to play.