Is healing supposed to be this...hard?

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That is all fine and good, but as a tank my sole purpose is to stay alive. I will forever use clemency to keep myself up, or the healer alive. Don't really care about doing "efficient" DPS when people are dying. I think everyone that fights the use of clemency thinks every paladin just spams it every rotation.

I use clemency in emergencies like healer is one shot, or healer healing themselves, and hard casting a raise. DPS goes out the window when the chips are down, and being a good tank is protecting those with no armor not just min-maxing your DPS. In a tight static yeah Clemency wouldn't be used as much if not at all, but PUG's and BS faceroll content?....give me a break.

Sure, using Clemency to save a party member or a whole run is certainly a useful thing... that's not what we were talking about though, is it?

Pop Requiescat and insta heals with at least 3-4 casts.....just incredible heals that healers SHOULD recognize to squeeze in DPS. My IRL healer friend knows this when I play paladin and takes advantage of it to DPS.

As far as I can see we were talking about using Clemency to allow your healer to dps more, which is not the same thing as saving a player that would've otherwise died.