Prepulling mobs as healer

[Videra]

Speaking strictly as someone who plays both roles, if the healer gets ahead of me - I fucked up in some capacity. This goes vice versa for the person I'm healing, so it doesn't much bother me.

[Saefinn]

Speaking strictly as someone who plays both roles, if the healer gets ahead of me - I fucked up in some capacity. This goes vice versa for the person I'm healing, so it doesn't much bother me.

Not even necessarily the case. I'm thinking of the healer in Amdapor Hard I had the other day who sprinted ahead of the pull to only get caught in the Bad Breath of a Morbol I had already pulled. I'd have pulled bigger, but the same healer wiped us 3 times on the first boss and twice on the second and seemed to struggle in places on the pulls.

[Seraphor]

Speaking strictly as someone who plays both roles, if the healer gets ahead of me - I fucked up in some capacity. This goes vice versa for the person I'm healing, so it doesn't much bother me.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Having rushed through trash the past, if you only do one AoE before sprinting ahead, 9 times out of 10 a DPS will single target someone and take aggro off you.
So you either stop for an entire GCD to do 2 AoEs, or you have to stop to pick up aggro again.
This causes your party to run ahead of you...