Combat system is beyond saving.

[TaleraRistain]

The thing with stuff like cleric stance is, it was optional. If you were doing any content that was the "normal difficulty" of the time then there was nobody forcing you to use it. If you were worried about activating it and then getting caught unable to heal enough then simply don't use it! It was a brilliant way for people who spent the time to learn the limits of their job to take the risk of turning it on to squeeze out extra damage when they could and, if done appropriately, they would be rewarded for doing so. There is nothing even close to that in the game the way it is today.

No it absolutely was not. There was a huge amount of community pressure to use cleric stance in dungeons. This whole idea now where people get mad when healers don't dps in dungeons? Happened back then, too. Healers have never be allowed to just focus on their given role.

[Rekh]

No it absolutely was not. There was a huge amount of community pressure to use cleric stance in dungeons. This whole idea now where people get mad when healers don't dps in dungeons? Happened back then, too. Healers have never be allowed to just focus on their given role.

Thank you. I vividly remember the community divide between those who refused to stance dance and those who did not.

[xivYuiM]

No it absolutely was not. There was a huge amount of community pressure to use cleric stance in dungeons. This whole idea now where people get mad when healers don't dps in dungeons? Happened back then, too. Healers have never be allowed to just focus on their given role.

Uhhh, a massive part of the reason that people get mad about healers not doing DPS in dungeons TODAY is because what the hell are they going to do otherwise? Every tank is so powerful now that with a few notable exceptions (some dungeons with DRK) healers are genuinely not needed. The other three tanks do not require healing to complete any of the max level dungeons in EW and to say otherwise is just lying. If healers don't need to heal then they might as well do DPS. In HW if you pulled wall to wall the healers needed to be doing a lot of healing or the tank would die in an instant.