Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
What people were specifically annoyed with were healers idling for large periods of time and not helping the rest of the party when the healing was completely under control. Players that needed time to heal or who were learning mechanics not using Cleric Stance were completely fine.
All I was disputing was their claim that stance dancing was optional. It very much was not because of exactly what you said. People didn't like healers who could handle their role effortlessly and pushed them to dps, which we could only do effectively under cleric stance.

Before anyone goes there, I stance-danced just fine. I even rather enjoyed it. It's the high-paced everything happening at once type of activity in fights that I thrive on. But I knew many who were stressed out as healers because of the pressure to use it and some who left the role because of it.

It was also full of jank. It didn't have a CD to turn on but did to turn it off. And sometimes it would just ignore that you had pressed it so you would think it was off and it wasn't. That's why healing in cleric stance memes abounded. And inevitably someone would take damage the second you put it on. I was happy to see it gone and give us our much more fluid and flexible way to switch from healing to dpsing that we have now.