PLDs: You have Clemency for a reason.

[Lambdafish]

Now obviously this is the sign of a bad tank not knowing what mitigation buttons he should be using when, but it does happen and I freaking hate it.

So lets see... a bad tank wouldn't be doing it because they are a bad tank, and a good tank shouldn't be doing it because they have far better alternatives and DPS spells are far more valuable. I don't have the math (so someone can correct me if even this is wrong), but unless you are specifically coordinating with your co-healer, all you are doing by using clemency is wasting DPS and causing overheal. No thanks.

Tanks should be using HG then cycling their cooldowns. The one time they should be using clemency is when they have to pop divine veil and the healer cant/wont

[Bright-Flower]

So lets see... a bad tank wouldn't be doing it because they are a bad tank, and a good tank shouldn't be doing it because they have far better alternatives and DPS spells are far more valuable. I don't have the math (so someone can correct me if even this is wrong), but unless you are specifically coordinating with your co-healer, all you are doing by using clemency is wasting DPS and causing overheal. No thanks.

Tanks should be using HG then cycling their cooldowns. The one time they should be using clemency is when they have to pop divine veil and the healer cant/wont

Or when the healers are just down and you're helping keep people up through the end of a fight or until a rdm/smn can get the healers up.

[Lambdafish]

Or when the healers are just down and you're helping keep people up through the end of a fight or until a rdm/smn can get the healers up.

Oh yeah, that too I guess xD. It is a great bit of emergency utility.

[Bright-Flower]

Oh yeah, that too I guess xD. It is a great bit of emergency utility.

Some of my favorite memories of the game have been using clemency to save a failing run. Usually during dungeon bosses when healer goes down and I use it to keep us up, but once solod the last 5% of O12 normal (well, last 5% of Omega F's health bar not 5% of the whole fight) when the rest of the raid wiped keeping myself up with cooldowns and clemency through the aoe spam.

I don't touch clemency when things are going well, but it's a blast when things go south and I have a reason to pop it out.