Which Tank job do you think is harder to heal?

Personally I don't think it's so much the "class" that's harder to heal, but the type of player who gravitates towards them. And for some reason I find it to be WARs that irk me the most. Which isn't to say that there aren't some wonderful WARs out there, I just think percentage-wise I find the biggest amount of jerks to be holding an axe. And for some reason jerk-ness seems to equate to tank-ability (or lack thereof).

Of course if you're a jerk but can tank well, I mean I might just forget to heal you...

WAR is by far the worst.
I enoy healing PLDs because of their nice dmg mitigation. DRK aren't very different from that.
WARs barely mitigate anything at all, they just get giant cleaves in their even more disgustingly big HP pool. Yes, they have aaaall the selfheals, but unless it's a friend, do I know if they are going to use them?
Probably not, so I'm stuck healing all the freaking time instead of spending a nice, happy time in Cleric Stance. With PLD and DRK, I see if they have mitigation up and can just leave them alone for a while until the CDs run out.
...I hate WAR :D

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Originally Posted by Atoli

WAR is by far the worst.
I enoy healing PLDs because of their nice dmg mitigation. DRK aren't very different from that.
WARs barely mitigate anything at all, they just get giant cleaves in their even more disgustingly big HP pool. Yes, they have aaaall the selfheals, but unless it's a friend, do I know if they are going to use them?
Probably not, so I'm stuck healing all the freaking time instead of spending a nice, happy time in Cleric Stance. With PLD and DRK, I see if they have mitigation up and can just leave them alone for a while until the CDs run out.

...I hate WAR :D

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Well, for some weird reason I only ever get Paladin tanks and they are easy to heal.
The second easiest for me the Warrior, especially if they make liberal use of the Inner Beast and chain it back to back with Infuriate. Then they just take -30% damage for 12 seconds and that's pretty nice.
For some reason Dark Knight feels like paper. In low level duty roulette a full 210+ Dark Knight tank was running around in grit (their tank stance) and just getting messed up by low level mobs. It made no sense to me. They were awful to heal.

Hardest - DRK
Easiest - War

WORST - Asshole tanks that pull 8+ mobs (give or take) and expect me to heal thru stupid. I just had an idiot PLD and now they are looking for a new healer. It's called a defensive CD for a reason.

/rant off

Thus far in four-man content. I haven't had a whole lot of trouble keeping the tanks ticking. The two tanks that have KO'd under my watch were both WAR, and very much aggressive pullers. Regardless of which tank is leading the way, what makes them more difficult to heal is when him/her and I are not synced. It helps me so much when tanks use marking macros, are conscious of my mp pool, and let me know when big pulls are coming. But DF woes has taught me to not expect this, and just be faster.

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Originally Posted by Iagainsti

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Leveling my healers, PLDs often seemed easiest to heal, by a tiny margin, and some Warriors the hardest. No PLD is likely to confuse themselves with a major damage dealer in any AoE pull, and they typically tried therefore to make things easier for the AoEing healer. Warriors would often (and often correctly) assume they were the damage being dealt, and tug at the reins accordingly.

That being said, Warriors were the easiest to run with overall as a WHM (no blowing up their BPs if they didn't hold CDs til after Holy Spam, BP included, which requires them to cap their mana higher before the pull for me not to rip hate off them), and DRKs equally so after that. Because they actually had AoEs. The kill-speed difference more than made up for the lack of Hallowed Ground.

P.S. A Warrior who establishes a pattern for when to swap stances, holding off for that Regen refresh before going Deliverance, is a godsend, especially when the ration of damage taken to healing easily done decreases (e.g. when outgearing stuff).

I think the whole point behind the Warrior was that it had more Vitality than the other tanks, and was therefore a "meat" tank. There's also a lot more to watch and upkeep on the WAR where the PLD is a much simpler class, which means a lot more people use their defensive cooldowns wisely. There's also that small group of elitist nutjobs who use their Warrior out of tank stance as the main tank, because screw healers, right? Essentially though, if every tank were optimized, I'd say that the the list would probably be:

1. Paladin
2. Dark Knight
3. Warrior

I literally don't notice a difference whatsoever.

Only irritating thing is if Walking Dead triggers when I'm on scholar.