your healer may hate you.

[Cyrusskorrey]

Howdy howdy Blue Castle here with a word of advice about big pulls...

Remember my fellow harbingers of death, you control who lives and who dies.

KYA HA HA HA, if some padded little brat of a tank wants to pull like he's a big boy
then you have every right to watch him burn for it! HAHAHAHAHAHA

but in all seriousness a good party communicates and works as a team.
if the team cant work together it might be time to throw in the towel.
but in our case the leave, kick or vote abandon.

[Yojimzo]

Hey, slow tank here, least formerly, been trying to do larger pulls recently to get out of my comfort zone, but anyways, I'm of the opinion that unless your gear is getting scaled down, or you're just at the cap for the dungeon, DO NOT PULL ENTIRE BETWEEN BOSS GROUPS IF YOU WON'T USE CDS.

Signed,
Someone who has to deal with this shit from both sides of the coin on a common basis

[Sida]

I don't think the point of the OP was that large pulls are bad. Large pulls are just fine as long as the tank is able to handle it in both gear and knowledge to use their skills correctly. What itches healers are those tanks who have seen this done and try to pull it of themselves and while fail for sheer lack of gear or misuse of mitigation abilities blame the healers for it, even if the healers has had to pull all caps to try and keep them alive.

[Werhusky]

Benediction is NOT meant to be used on trash pulls.

For me Benediction is a regular heal I often use it on trash :S

[Selsix]

just because you see a well geared, experienced tank grabbing ALL the trash in a dungeon and dragging it to one spot so the dps can aoe, that doesn't mean your tissue paper wearing self can do the same thing. Benediction is NOT meant to be used on trash pulls. if your healer has 10%mp after a trash pull, you're pulling too big. period. and don't take off and do it again when the healer is under 50% mp. you may feel like a god, but you're just a goof with inferior gear. stop it.

I'm going to do it and nothing you can say will stop me. Quit being lazy.

[Trixxy]

Benediction is better used on large [risky] pulls rather than on dungeon bosses, given the tank and healer aren't total goofs there's no instance where using Bene on a boss is a necessity or absolutely required.

As a Tank I rotate my cooldowns as I see fit and I have yet to see a healer who couldn't keep up with healing during my expert roulettes.
The only time where Healers are forced to Bene me is when I slack off and pull big without any deffensive cooldowns up.
I also keep an eye at my Healer's mp and quit pulling big as soon as I see that the Healer's new / is struggling.

So no, highly doubt my healer hates me.

[Seipheris]

Always gauge your party before the mass pulls. 9/10 it's the DPS that can't cut it, not the healer.

[Februs]

I'm usually running with a healer from my own FC, and she has made it very clear that she hates teacup tanks who do baby pulls. Small pulls put her to sleep, which is why she brings me along for her roulette's in the first place. She doesn't want to deal with some random who might only pull one mob at a time. So, I highly doubt she hates me.

When it comes to random healers, I'm still not worried. So long as a tank is rotating their CD's efficiently, the healer shouldn't really have anything to complain about.

[ardrej]

You don't need healers for the current expert dungeons anyway so I don't really care if they hate me. Everything hits like a level 50 mob. It's stupid.

Ikr once our party lost a healer after the first boss in one of the new dungeons we cleared all the way to the second boss with no problem at all

[addz3]

I couldn't disagree more. I like to pull everything up until I hit a mandatory stop in the dungeon via a wall or a key door or something like that. I like it when I heal tanks who do the same thing; because regardless of finishing the trash pull at 50% MP or 5% MP, it's faster and it's more exciting/fun. Healing while the tank plays it safe with every pull is the most boring way to play this game. The second most boring way to play this game is tanking mobs 3 at a time. Setting cruise control to "cool" and playing without any sense of risk is boring.

I couldn't disagree more. Maybe some like it like that, but I can't find any fun in just cure bombing the tank without time to use any other ability, hoping no DPS get hit by an aoe because the tank decided to pull the entire floor in one hit. If everyone is over geared then sure, but on a DF party, its not the case.