Panic Healing is a Toxic behavior that needs to be made reportable

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Originally Posted by Kevin_Aros

It's a community based toxic behavior that not only makes me livid but I shouldn't need to be constantly uncomfortable when I Tank a Dungeon

People do it to speed things up, But it's unacceptable for people who are uncomfortable with the practice, I play this game to defuse stress, Not want to get more stress from people who think it's okay to do such things

I wouldn't mind this whole thing if Defense stats actually meant something in the game yet every enemy still hits hard as if they all deal Percentile Based Damage, The fact that Full Augmented Scaven Gear means next to nothing in Holminster Switch really shows how pointless it is to even acknowledge Defense stats and time between Defensive Cooldown Abilities has to be micromanaged with the exception of each Tank having a 30 Second Anti Tank Buster CD

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So this is not a good opinion to have. For one thing, Tanking is the safest role to play, because Defense and Magic Defense do matter. I'm not sure what the math shows these days, but I think back in Heavensward someone mathed it out, and every 600 defense equates to something like 10% mitigation. Very few attacks in the game deal set damage or HP% based damage, though they do exist, even so Tanks have the most HP and self sustaining abilities to deal with them on. Exceptions are like Ozma balls and stuff. In dungeons your defense does matter. Try tanking Holminster Switch in i290 gear, you'll get torn to shreds.

For the other thing, healers are supposed to heal you, and they will heal you. Healers have powerful OGCDs that are designed to heal most or all of anyone's HP, to be used at the Healer's discretion. A lot of healers like to plan around these cooldowns, because it lets them contribute to ending the damage that you are taking sooner, so that they have to cast less healing, but also so that everyone else can use less cooldowns, less button presses for attacks etc. The best ways to use these heals is to let the Tank's HP resource diminish until it's almost depleted, and then fully restore it with a single heal. This is not panic, though for some people, these options are considered only in case of emergency. There are also healers who tab out of the game for a 15~20 seconds to look at something else and tab back in, press these same heals, and then tab back out. I wouldn't use the term panic healing.

To me it sounds like you don't like playing Tank. You should play something else if you do not desire to perform a Tank's duty to the party. That duty is, of course, allocating and timing your cooldowns appropriately for each different style of content, while trying to take as much damage in place of your party members as you possibly can. You also need to limit damage done to yourself in anyway that you can by wearing the best armor available to you, dodging attacks that can be dodged, and mitigating party wide attacks that cannot be avoided.

Ok, so the way I see it, if you are using your defensive cooldowns actively and are dying, then perhaps just vote kick.

If you aren't dying, don't worry about it. Just play as well as you can and don't worry about the healer unless you are actually dying.

Keeping healthbars at 100% is not optimal as there is auto health regen that no longer enters the equation if you do that..
100% is only targeted to restore to in conditions where an expected spike is about to occur such that survival depends on that 100%.

There are also healer abilities that increase in potency the lower the target's health.
If there isn't a specific mechanic a healer wants to use this on, they will DPS cast and let your health go low as they wait to use that ability.

The one problem is you don't know who is doing it from calmly from strategy and who is not paying attention until combat starts.
Just assume strategy until you get knocked out, then you'll know for sure.

You might want to try the conjurer storyline sometime.

From the title, I was expecting another thread from a healer complaining about paladins and red mages healing themselves.

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Originally Posted by Kevin_Aros

Panic Healing

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Means the opposite of what you apparently think it means. "Panic healing" is healing done when panicking. You're looking for "panic-inducing healing", a distant cousin -- one unrelated to most tanks who are intentionally allowed to fall to critical HP as a mere matter of efficient healing, especially when paired with an AST.

"panic healing"

The thing is, the healer isn't healing you out of panic, the healer is healing you in a controlled way. However, you on the other hand panic due to the lack of "constant" heals. It's more of a trust issue on your behalf as opposed to the healer in panic.

You haven't truly lived as a healer until you've panic healed at least once.

PSA: Scholar's most powerful heal Excogitation relies on being triggered by falling below 50% hp so Scholars by design should be letting you fall to that much hp. Doubly so if used with Recitation since that forces it to crit. Sure, it also heals if it reaches the 45s duration, but it usually ends up just being overhealing if that happens. Other healers have similar large instant heals that perform a similar function albeit not as obviously designed to facilitate efficient healing as Excogitation is.

A good healer will only heal you when you need it. And if you've got a SCH, Excogitation is designed for your HP to drop below a certain threshold. Some healing spells will cure you for a decent amount and often damage is very predictable due to the scripted nature of the game.

If you don't die, then chances are, you've got a good healer.

If you do die, it's no biggy, it happens for a whole plethora of reasons. It could be as simple as somebody made a mistake. And they are an opportunity to learn, you might learn managing your CD's more effectively or the healer may learn to not be as over confident or might see how they misjudged the situation.

If you keep on dying, however, then yeah, something is wrong.

I usually find the toxicity in a party is when people lose their cool because mistakes happen or somebody isn't playing to their standards...especially in a roulette, where it's exactly that. A roulette.

Panicking Tanks complaining about not being topped are a Toxic behavior that needs to be made reportable

It's a community based toxic behavior that not only makes me livid but I shouldn't need to be constantly uncomfortable when I heal a Dungeon

Tanks complain about not feeling safe when they're not at 100% hp, But it's unacceptable to heal them constantly for people who are uncomfortable with the practice, I play this game to defuse stress, Not want to get more stress from people who think it's okay to do such things

I wouldn't mind this whole thing if outgoing damage was actually happening often enough to warrant babysitting hp. The fact that you can run a full 15 minute dungeon without touching a single GCD heal means next to nothing really shows how pointless it is to even acknowledge healing GCDs exist and time between healing Cooldown Abilities shouldn't mean i have to sit and stare at a wall to micromanage someone else's feelings in place of my own.

-- From the other side.

Your argument is literally that you want people to play the way that makes you feel good, but refuse to acknowledge or accept anyone else playing in the way that makes them feel good?