Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
I hate the former healer because I've been so many times where they don't bother to heal until i'm low HP. Then I die because defensive temps run out and I spike. This was before I switched to Strength and realized that the healers were just bad once I got my own to higher level.
You'd hate tanking raids then. I can't tell you how many times the cast bar on Hypercompressed Plasma has been at 50-75% and I'm sitting at half-ish HP, then my static's WHM sneaks in a Tetragrammaton to top me off. Bonus points when it crits.

You do realize that tanks have different thresholds? That kind of thinking is stupid. You heal for how much damage the tank receives. Since I play a tank and healer I know I will take as about much damage per X seconds unless i'm using a temp.
You can usually tell raiding tanks from non-raiding tanks due to that threshold. Non-raiders get to 25% of their HP and completely freak "I ALMOST DIED OMG!!" Raiders get to three-digit HP and go "Nice save." I've met some bad healers in DF to be sure, but I give them the benefit of the doubt to start off with. The tank/healer relationship requires a measure of trust on the part of the tank.

I really hate healers who sit on their butts and wait to heal.
This might be pertinent if we were actually just sitting there waiting to heal instead of DPS'ing (which I have seen, but the vast majority of healers don't just stand around waiting for the tank to take damage, thank goodness). That's what we have instant heals for. DPS DPS DPS, toggle off cleric stance, hit instant heal, resume healing as normal. Hell, Essential Dignity is wonderful for that because it actually gains potency the lower you are on HP. As long as the tank doesn't die, I don't see why it matters.