Tanks, please use buffs

If this was me sorry, I am getting back into tanking and been trying to seemingly weave my cool downs appropriately. Hopefully I am doing it right.

WAR 4 evah!

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Originally Posted by Altena

There are things you can do between heals that make you less bored when playing healer.
I suggest you check out the many other threads about what you can do in these circumstances.

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I'm not bored because I have nothing else to do, I'm bored because the dungeon is too easy. The lowest level ones especially bore me.

Hey, I found this great guide for tanks. The title says it's for PLD, but many parts of it apply to all tanks.

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Originally Posted by Gumbercules

all the buffs! before you move! just make a macro with them all! :P

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For maximum effectiveness, pop all your buffs, then do a ready check.

I agree tanks should learn how to manage their cds.... I've done the schtick from every angle though.... I've healed for tanks who don't want to use any cds... make my work as a healer harder.... tanks who do use their CD but get hit by everything... and tanks who actually have a semblance of intelligence. On the other side... as a tank... I've had healers who get so overly focused on being a DPS that I don't get healed until 10% health... and when the healer goes... oh shit... i'm dead and the grp wipes... i've been going as a pld for a large portion of the time just so that i have that cushion that is clemency.... several times now... i've had to heal myself as a tank to the point i'm out of mp to use even flash... I'm actually scared to tank as a drk now. Then there's going in as a dps role... A RDM to be more precise.... I've been yelled at by the healer for not healing the tank when the tank dies.... All so that they could dps... Now.. As a healer.. i don't go nutso in the dps department. I'm one of them overly cautions types when it comes to healing... I'll dps as a healer.... don't expect much... holy hear holy there.. save mp save mp... ppl might go stupid.... yeah... those are my runs alot of the time. i'm glad for the change to healers.... but way to many got hit with the stupid stick... Then again... the same could be said about each of the roles

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Originally Posted by Beckett

For maximum effectiveness, pop all your buffs, then do a ready check.

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Please do NOT forget that Living Dead/Hallowed Ground/Holmgang are also cooldowns!
This is particularly important for PLD, though: for absolute maximum effectiveness make sure you pop HG along with literally every other CD you have available at the moment, just for EXTRA safety!

You should have approximately zero cooldowns ready for the next pull - oh, wait, you do have one! SPRINT! That counts, right?

you don't pay my sub, I play how ever I want!!!

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

I see this a lot, usually WAR for some reason. The best I can think is they are used to being unkillable monsters and still play like it for some reason.

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I miss being a murder machine that just happened to be capable of protecting people. #NotMyWarrior

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Originally Posted by Spiroglyph

Please do NOT forget that Living Dead/Hallowed Ground/Holmgang are also cooldowns!
This is particularly important for PLD, though: for absolute maximum effectiveness make sure you pop HG along with literally every other CD you have available at the moment, just for EXTRA safety!

You should have approximately zero cooldowns ready for the next pull - oh, wait, you do have one! SPRINT! That counts, right?

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I see a couple of DRKs pop Living Dead at random while at full hp mid fight. I assume it is to assert dominance over the enemies.

I had a war not use buffs kept dying because couldn't heal them fast enough and tank got mad and kicked me. I used highest healing spell ast has and couldn't keep up. After all headaches with bad tanks stopped being a healer.