1. The trick here is to get in the habit of not waiting for card actions to complete before taking your next healing/DPS action.

In other words, by the time you see which card you drew, you should already be halfway into your next spellcast.

2. You can still do a pretty good amount of stance dancing in savage. AST has awesome DoTs with no accuracy check; there's no excuse for pittance DPS (or at least, no excuse you can blame on job shortcomings)

3. It's plenty useful, actually. The HoT alone is stupidly potent, and there are plenty of instance in both savage and thordan EX where you can make use of the damage reduction too.

As for its size... it's easy enough to hit the tank. Tell your group to stack up like they should.

4. Take a look at other MMOs. Stacking shields is OP. Galvanize and noct field shouldn't stack.

5. I do think nocturnal stance could use a little more love.