Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
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.