Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
It's interesting seeing people say Cleric Stance. Do people actually miss it, or is that just cool to say?

Back in ARR/HW I liked Cleric Stance. It was an interesting skill check and I was proud of my stance dancing powers. Then SE said it was going away in SB. "What?!", cried the healer community. "Won't healing be super boring without it?" Well, no, as it turns out. Healing is just fine without CS and 3 years on now I honestly don't miss the stance dance at all (see also, tank stances.) I didn't mind CS's existence but I'm also not sad that it's gone now.
I miss HW cleric stance far more now than I ever did in SB. Yet I saw its change in SB as a necessary evil, as it was causing issues with getting people to play healers with how it gimped your healing, great for those who were trying to master their job, not so great for fresh healers.

However we didn't lose as much of our dps kits on the transition from HW-SB, the other mechanics a job had also masked the loss(fairy management, time dialiation old Celestial Opposition etc),Whm just had it the worst with how much of their stuff was made cross role and their job mechanic sucked. However ShB gutted more out of all 3 healers with nothing interesting replacing them, glorified cds than anything that makes you interact with yout kit, Cleric Stance removal is felt more keenly as healers are desperate to have something to break glare glare glare/broil broil broil/ malefic malefic malefic etc.

Healers skill ceiling is at an all time low, too low, if we had HW cleric stance back it would raise that ceiling sufficient enough to keep some more people invested in healers.

Imagine where you cannot continue spamming glare/broil/malefic because you need to heal even with ogcds rather than now where you can continue spamming because your ogcds are more than capable. There's no risk atm and it sucks big time wonky sick.