Protect? Really important? Low level content

[ArcheDragon]

It's kind of tough on this point, not sure if you tank much, but there are DPS healers that are bad. It took me a while to see this since I'm a healer main and queue almost exclusively as a healer, but some healers try to DPS and are entirely unable to do so safely. Since the point of the discussion is low level dungeons, the tank could very well be low level and not be experienced enough to tell the difference between a good healer a bad one right off the bat. It is frustrating that people don't put their faith in you when you have absolute confidence in your ability, and I think that's one reason why it's such a volatile subject. You zone in with the intention of doing 100% of your job and more, and people tell you you're doing it wrong.

I see your point, but a new tank should not be trying to comment on how a healer does their job. There are bad healers. There are also bad tanks. I've done runs where the tank forgets to put up shield oath but you don't see me rage quitting. I heal them. I don't see the point in assuming that all players are bad and thus their play style should be homogenized or else you quit. Respect your fellow players, and if then things go wrong, try and help. If you honestly believe that a group wouldn't have wiped with the extra 1-4% mitigation that protect offers, then your healer isn't the only bad player. For something like that to cause wipes it must be progression content or an ill-equipped tank AND a very bad healer. A healer so bad as to have NEVER healed before and not even know that they should be HEALING... Again, that is if you think protect would have saved a group. That isn't even considering the fact that dps is another form of mitigation and if a healer doesn't heal at all then they must be putting out plenty of mitigation, in which case they should have been healing but protect wouldn't have saved you as it is less mitigation than the damage that they were doing.

In other words, in cases where one physick fully heals a player, protect isn't important, imho, and that is the case for most healers in low level dungeons.