Over-healing should not generate extra threat

[NintenPyjak64]

It's not a waste of mana. Over-healing when using HoTs for example can actually conserve mana.

Over-healing is unavoidable on this game... unless you simply don't use half of your spells and heal terribly. The extra threat it causes is just a nuisance, and doesn't do anything but annoy players like me.

Spamming heals needlessly is not the same as over-healing. I think you are confusing two very different concepts.

All I've got to say: Learn to work with your other healer or learn to cancel casts. I heal when I see the tanks need healing, I have a SCH take care of the pre-curing as they should be doing. I rarely suffer from Overheal threat because I play conservatively. I rarely call to my bards for MP song, I'm not wasting MP on pointless things and more so, I'm not Overhealing as much as more inexperienced healers normally would. It is very avoidable, and you can avoid it by not curing too early.

Tank has 7k HP, they drop to 6k. Perfect time to start casting Cure 1 because it'll do ~1k HP restored (any overheal amount will be so so immensely minuscule if it shows up at all). Only time there'll be real overheal is if it crits (which is why Crit builds are not viable for WHM imho.) Tank drops to 6.5k, Cure 1 would generate overheal threat with the 500 HP overheal, so a SCH's Aldo or fairy will heal that just nicely.

If I'm alone though, I'm DPSing in Cleric Stance until I see the tank need healing, and I'll do just that. If I'm really desperate to get the cure off but I have no time to get off Cleric stance, Benediction since it's clearly unaffected by CS.

That'll pretty much wrap up my 2 cents. Hope you're having a pleasant day/afternoon/night OP