Healing an axe tank. Really need advice.

[Rivest]

Before anything else... it's not 'axe tank' it's either Marauder, or Warrior.
Next you need to ask yourself is this content Leveling / post-50 / RAID... since each of these works very differently as to how you have to approach it

Healing is as much about your weapon / gear as it is about the tanks. If they are too poorly geared they take too much and the incoming spike damage of trash packs will kill them. If you are too poorly geared (weapon out of date) you will not be able to maintain healing throughput for a fight (skill wise this also has to do with are you over-healing regularly). Use the time you have between battles when you have high mana regen to cast damage shields on party members to save you mana when you need it, and make sure you're using Shroud for MP or enmity whichever is more dangerous in the fight.

He or she is probably using Axe tank, instead of typing ''Marouder or Warrior Tank' to shorten it.
To be honest, I don't see anything wrong with using Axe tank, after all it's a Tank with an axe.

I do notice that a lot of MRD/WAR forget to use their defensive cooldowns and it can get stressfull for CNJ/WHM.
What Urthdigger stated is right too, a lot of Warrior spec STR instead of VIT and wear DPS gear instead of tank gear.

[Slark]

What Urthdigger stated is right too, a lot of Warrior spec STR instead of VIT and wear DPS gear instead of tank gear.

It actually is NOT right.
WAR's pull around 120DPS in full ilvl90 with an Allagan weapon off of T5. PLD's pull like 95-110 in shield oath in similar gear. People need to stop spreading the misinformation that "warriors do amazing DPS" , and get it out of their heads. It's really just not true. PLD's do comparable DPS. If a WAR stacks STR attributes, they are stupid to the max. This stupidity is only amplified by the fact that WAR scales extremely well off of VIT, even more so than PLD does.
If you are going STR for "better healing", "better aggro", or "better DPS", you should consider rerolling.

With that said, WAR's spike more frequently, but they provide more healing increases. PLD's are more damage reduction in the way they tank. Sounds more like a healer gear issue than a tank one.

[YuiSasaki]

This stupidity is only amplified by the fact that WAR scales extremely well off of VIT, even more so than PLD does.
If you are going STR for "better healing", "better aggro", or "better DPS", you should consider rerolling.

So true, i'd only consider going for STR if i reach the next Tier within 5Pts.