Cleric Stance

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Cleric Stance

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Increases attack magic potency by 5%.
Duration: 15s

— In-game description

Cleric Stance is an action unlocked at level 8. It is available for Healer.

Historical Notes

Between ARR and Heavensward, this ability had the text "Swaps current INT and MND attribute ratings, while increasing potency of attack spells by 10% and reducing potency of healing spells by 20%. Effect ends upon reuse."
- This effect means that optimizing damage output for healers came at a significant cost to healing output.
- Percent-based healing actions such as Benediction and Lustrate (prior to patch 3.0) were unaffected.
This was changed to the current text for Stormblood, becoming more specific as a potency increase. At the same time, healer damage would now always scale off MND (Mind) - in other words, the Mind attribute also gained the text "Also affects attack magic potency when role is Healer.". That change to the attribute would also make Cleric Stance's previous effect to swap attributes redundant.
The ability was completely removed in Shadowbringers.
The lost action Lost Seraph Strike, added in patch 5.35, shares the same icon and has similar effects to the original incarnation of Cleric Stance.

Patch 5.0 (2019-07-02): Removed.
Patch 4.0 (2017-06-20):
- Changed to a role action, accessible by all healer classes.
- Effects reworked to be "Increases potency of attack magic by 5%. Duration: 15s. Recast: 90s."
Patch 2.38 (2014-09-15): No longer usable in PvP areas.
Patch 2.0 (2013-08-27): Added.