Why do people hate on tanky healers?

[Daenerys_Sedai]

While as true as this is. The better gear you have the higher the available skill bar is raised. Skill won't save you if you run out of MP during a fight.

Also I lol'd at the outperform comment. Makes me think of all the WHMs on my server who always cause my team to fail T4 since apparently healing the OT is so "difficult"

To echo this but with an analogy:
Let's say there's a rampant water shortage in town and people gotta get their tubs filled with water. The only source of water is a well in the woods that is full of obstacles--large rocks to climb over, steep hills that are prone to landslides after rain, dogs and hobos that will chase you around, and other stuff.

Now let's say that you're like a super star athlete. You took your high school water-filling team to state and were super pro and then played a bit in college. You could probably fill those folks' tubs no prob. However, to fill the tub, you are given two coffee mugs. Not the most efficient way and certainly a little less room for error but you're pretty confident that those tubs will get filled.

Contrast this with your idiot neighbor who owns a golf cart with a water cooler. He might bumble around a bit--maybe hit a tree or two--in that cart and maybe lose more water than you in one trip, but his margin for error is larger since he's got that cooler and all. Also, he is likely moving faster than you.

Most people and PUGs--not knowing that your neighbor is an idiot or that you were pretty 1337 in high school and college--are going to want their tubs filled by your neighbor. You could change their minds, but you're going to have to fill a LOT of tubs faster and more efficiently than your neighbor before that happens.

[Lemon8or]

To echo this but with an analogy:

This made my day. Thank you!

[Marcusow86]

great story

Exactly!

@OP, No one hates you when you can outheal your current content with tank acc and 30 VIT. But don't expect to be in any end game content like T5 (currently) where healing less would mean more stress on other people. Everyone have their role pretty much tested to the limit, they do not need an additional burden so that some WHM can be a tank-wanna-be.

So if we both owned a water cooler and a golf cart, who would most likely win?

Skill is long out of the question, you do not have the tool to take the discussion further into skill. You lost when you have no tool, just like you lost a race when everyone is using a car and you are on foot. Irregardless of skills, you lost before the race could even start. You lost at the starting point.