Healer & Tank DPS (WoW vs FFXIV)

[loreleidiangelo]

Love healers like you. I can go full DPS for the boss fights and just use the cooldowns for tank busters. Trash, yea I'm in deliverance for the IB mitigation so I don't have to blow cooldowns.

So this is just kinda like, passing the DPS buck then; as it were? I mean, either way the extra damage is coming from somewhere, whether it's you playing offensively or a healer playing offensively.

I guess my question to tanks would be, would you RATHER your healer dedicate 100% of their casts to keeping you above 90%, or would you rather see them sling damage even if it means you get down to sub-30% sometimes? It's not a derisive question, I'm just curious. I read on Gen Discussion a lot that healers DPSing seems to make tanks nervous even IF everything winds up okay, so I guess I'm just trying to get a feel for tanks' preference.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I read on Gen Discussion a lot that healers DPSing seems to make tanks nervous even IF everything winds up okay, so I guess I'm just trying to get a feel for tanks' preference.

As a tank, keep me over 50%ish and I'm happy, especially if it allows me to go ham with Deliverance. My issue with dpsing PUG healers is that oftentimes they wipe the raid by letting the MT die, both on bosses and on trash. It's extremely depressing to be sitting at 1 HP after exhausting all of my CDs and watching that Holmgang count down to death, while watching the healer spamming stone/malefic/broil.

[Tufelhunden]

Snip.

I can't speak for Palladin, but warriors don't get a damage reduction from being in tank stance, only a larger health pool and enmity. So after I've established agro, presuming the healer doesn't need the extra health to keep me up, going to dps stance is a no brainer. Now if the healer struggles I stay tank stance use IB to provide extra mitigation 20 percent for 6 seconds as fell cleaved doesn't provide any mitigation.