Thought I'd re-post Xiepher's excellent stancing tips from the in-game General board here:
Here's some tips for those who are working on their stances.
These are from what I've learned from each that helped me
and hope they'll help you all. :)Crab stance: A good way to get this stance up is to go into a area with a lot
of mobs, do a area attack like whirl wind or earthquake, then
remove your weapons so you don't kill them fast and just let them hit on you
for a while until you have to recall and heal up. Rinse and repeat.
Removing your gear will also help some too.Viper stance: Pretty much fight mobs where your attacks will strike first
each round. I also did the area effect tatic with this one, except I left
my weapons equipped.Bull stance: Pure offense here. Just keep fighting mobs and it'll go up.
I didn't do nothing extra to help it go up.Mongoose stance: A defense stance. I did pretty much the crab stance tatic here.
Crane stance: I just did the crab tatic here too.
Another tip is to use help stancetable. Shows the stances and will show
what each stance has success rate with mobs you fight that are in a different stance.IMPORTANT: Do not wait until Hero / Ancient to work on your stances, you'll regret it.
That's it for now, hope this helps you guys some. I'll post another note later on
that'll have tips on advanced stances!
Feel free to discuss!