Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

My thing about it is if they want to shift away CS being a big thing they need to give healers more healing to do or some other aspect to the jobs that they cover. DPS and tanks need to be fully active the whole time or the results of them not being active show pretty quickly, whereas from a healing standpoint regen and off GCD abilities can cover most of it as far as dungeons/primals/24man raid go. Having it so one role can be practically afk is not ok game design.

Part of where the frustration against healers not using CS by choice is that is basically means they're just standing there while the rest of the group may or may not be busting their ***. Melee in particular are a huge pain in the *** to play well in dungeons compared to tanks/healer/ranged. Having said that though there is a big difference between choosing not to use it for safety and because you don't want to. The former is fine because lets be honest there are tanks around that pop nothing for cooldowns, stand in all the ***and manage to explode if they don't get a constant stream of C2s. So playing it safe is understandable and I'm guilty of my fair share of overhealing for that reason when I don't know the tank (though Vyre can testify that I'm not shy about playing the hp limbo when I do).

Choosing not to and just spamming cure/medica because they just don't want to is the equivalent of a drg who only uses heavy thrust, a pld who only uses rage of halone (like the ability itself not the combo), a brd who leaves wardens off and only heavy shots every 3 auto attacks. They'd still be doing damage, they'd still be keeping hate, so they're still doing their jobs technically but you'd have a hard time finding people to defend those 3 examples compared to a healer just spamming cure instead of using all the tools at their disposal. CS is just that, a tool in your arsenal no different than how tanks have combos/stances focused on damage instead of hate generation, or how ninja has goad and it's hate tools. All that said it's still "ok" to chose not to, it's their character to play, just as it's "ok" for the drg/pld/brd examples since it's their $12 a month. But they also have no place to play a victim when a group of players, be it a static or pug group decides to replace them for not using all their tools and just standing there when the rest of the group is.

That's where my issue in the anti cleric stance thing comes from, no doubt there are some vocal people who harbor unrealistic expectations, but for the most part it's just people expecting healers to play with the same level of activity as other jobs. I also admit to some added salt because the healers that don't use CS are usually high up on the list of people who will go after a dps for doing low damage or tank for being under geared and not able to keep up on hate in a dungeon. Again, not doing it to be cautious is cool, but not doing it just because after the entire conjurers quest line revolved around how it's important doing more than just heal is just an elaborate way of saying "I'm lazy"

TLDR
"I'm spamming cures not using cleric stance to be safe/learning" = Thumbs Up
"I'm spamming cures not using cleric stance because damage is your job" = Get Out
"I'm spamming cures not using cleric stance because I'm lazy" = I can relate I guess

/end cleric stance rant

But I'll kick any healers doing nothing with 80%+ mp in EX/tome farming