Healers, It's ok we really do love you!

[Keddera_StormMoon]

It's a mixed bag.

I generally don't ask much of my groups when I heal. I found it's best to just keep my mouth shut and do what I can to keep an overzealous tank alive. I've found that if I say something about perhaps a tank who is overzealous, bad with rotations, or just undergeared - I get a "Deal with it" attitude back more often then not. So I just see if I can keep up. If I can't, I leave rather than waste time and bandwidth on it. I have plenty of other games I can play for 30 minutes if it comes to that.

Only time I speak up anymore is if the Tank asks if he should pull bigger. I appreciate they ask first, and will always tell them to do what's comfortable for them. It's been my experience that people who ask first usually know what they're doing and are smart enough to adjust if they find they can't handle it. I'll also say the same thing if the DPS begs the tank to pull bigger - at which point I'll say "Pull what you're comfortable with, I'm your healer not them - and I got your back either way"

[Hezzlocks]

It's a mixed bag.

I generally don't ask much of my groups when I heal. I found it's best to just keep my mouth shut and do what I can to keep an overzealous tank alive. I've found that if I say something about perhaps a tank who is overzealous, bad with rotations, or just undergeared - I get a "Deal with it" attitude back more often then not. So I just see if I can keep up. If I can't, I leave rather than waste time and bandwidth on it. I have plenty of other games I can play for 30 minutes if it comes to that.

Only time I speak up anymore is if the Tank asks if he should pull bigger. I appreciate they ask first, and will always tell them to do what's comfortable for them. It's been my experience that people who ask first usually know what they're doing and are smart enough to adjust if they find they can't handle it. I'll also say the same thing if the DPS begs the tank to pull bigger - at which point I'll say "Pull what you're comfortable with, I'm your healer not them - and I got your back either way"

As someone who is only just starting to get into tanking, and is nervous as all hell when I enter a new dungeon and try to carefully balance between speed and caution, this is a welcome attitude to me. In fact, I would love it if a healer would offer me constructive criticism - so long as it's actually that and not outright abuse.

They've all just stayed quiet though, and while I totally understand why, it's a little bit of a shame as I spend much of the dungeon wondering if I'm stressing the healer too much or if I'm boring him or whatever. Even more so when I try out a technique that I've seen other tanks do but botch it up pretty badly. Most recently was Sohm Al, the level 53 version, trying to pull the trash before the frost dragon down so we wouldn't have to worry about those AoE ice bombs and end up causing a bit of a mess. Not a word was said, but I could tell there were "WTF is this tank doing" thoughts going on.