PSA - Cleric Stance and vote kicking

[Belhi]

Thank you for clarifying the lilly system ^+^ I understand you wanting the risk mechanic but if you broaden the picture a lot of healers including myself just decide not to DPS because switching between stances all the time is quite tedious for us and we feel like it is just stupid. I found everytime I wanted to change stance and do a little bit of damage, I look in my party list and someone is hurting real bad so now I have to wait 5 seconds for the cooldown to switch back to healing to hopefully get to them in time, it is very annoying for me on all healer jobs. I don't expect DPS jobs to know their rotation 100% and do the best possible damage or tanks to hold agro 100% of the time and I also don't expect healers to suddenly become solely DPS jobs even when the stance is removed. It is just a nice feature for us healers that want to do damage and not worry about being screamed at because the cooldown on our stance keeps us from healing someone and they die. ^+^

/sigh

I suppose I must yield to the majority who seem mostly happy with the change. I just suspect it is going to make healing anything short of high level content painfully boring for me.

I do have a concern that healers seem to be getting slowly pushed more an more in the direction of a dps role but that is what it is. At the very least it will be the reality for us for the next 2 years. I just hope we don't hit 5.0 and them going 'we aren't adding a healer job because we feel the need still balance the three we have properly' followed by more of the same. I like dpsing as a dps. I like tanking as a tank. When I heal I want my gameplay to be focused on healing. That seems to be moving away currently and I don't like that. I have never seen this 'healers must dps!' thing in other MMOs and I have never had another MMO where I have had as much healer downtime as I do in FF14. The dps thing might have been unintentional but regardless of intent they are moving things slowly more in that direction.

I suppose we will just have to wait and see.

With these new changes making mnd increase your dmg you literally have no excuse to not be dpsing when there isn't a need for healing, you either work or you get removed it's that simple, and these changes heavily reinforce that.

Fine. Then start holding SMNs that don't use Eye for an Eye and Virus and BRDs that don't use their songs to the same standard.