Quote Originally Posted by AmiableApkallu View Post
The core responsibility of tanking is to hold aggro, to direct incoming damage towards yourself instead of letting it hit the party, or failing that, to try and reduce it.

Restoring HP to yourself or the party has nothing to do with that. That's for the healers to take care of. That's why they exist in the tank-healer-DPS trinity.
This is basically the core reason why tanks and healers will never agree on how to fix healers

Tanks think that being an off healer is part of their role design while healers believe that tanks should hold agro and allow them to heal