Ranting about Regen

[Katlyna]

Look, I get it, heal-over-time spells are nice and all. You love them, hey, I love them too! So when I click off your Regen / Medica2 / Aspected Benefic / Aspected Helios outside of battle, it's NOT because I hate you and/or want you to feel bad. It's because I don't want to see every single mob EXCEPT the one I tagged make a beeline for you the instant Regen ticks, before I can start AoE'ing them, and I'm guessing you don't want them chewing on your face either. It gets even more awkward when I'm trying to pull multiple packs, since I'd REALLY rather not turn around to pick up those stragglers who decided you look delicious.[/SIZE]

My reply to every single tank that has this problem is A) Get some real aggro. B) Put on some fending gear. C) Learn to use cooldowns.

Seriously I would stop pre-regening tanks if I thought they weren't so damn squishy. You can't use DPS gear and not use cooldowns. Even one my favorite friends does this. His damage is great but he is so bloody squish that I can't do any safe/consistent DPS while he pulls. Whenever I find the good tanks that do good damage AND aren't squishy my happy meter shoots through the roof and the pre-regens stop.

[Noxifer]

My reply to every single tank that has this problem is A) Get some real aggro. B) Put on some fending gear. C) Learn to use cooldowns.

I'd say the key to the post you responded to was "before I can start AoE'ing them". 'Real aggro' doesn't really matter if we aren't even given a single second to apply it. Especially with the regen ticks coming pretty much once every GCD as it is: Tomahawk, meet mobs halfway, get ready to Overpow.....damn, mobs escaped from in front of me to beeline for the healer. Sure, it's definitely possible to get them back before they squish said healer, but it causes a fair amount of unnecessary chaos
As for Fending vs Strength gear... I wouldn't be surprised if there are Leatherworkers -- sorry, healers -- who'd give the exact opposite advice, with the motivation that Strength accessories make it easier to hold 'real aggro', instead of 'more HP means I don't have to be so paranoid about healing'. *shrugs*

In my experience, there are generally two types of tanks that neglect their cooldowns:
1: The unsure ones -- either because they're new to the game or don't main tank or some other reason -- in which case the panic to keep mobs from running away due to premature regen isn't likely to help, and they're not always likely to ask the healer to please stop.
And 2: The cocky ones, who -- either out of overconfidence or flawed training or some other reason -- believe that "a good tank doesn't need cooldowns; it's the healer's job to keep me alive". These ones... yeah, they aren't fun to deal with ^^; (Sometimes, it's tempting to counter-argue with something like, "A good whitemage doesn't need Cure II; it's the tank's job to withstand damage," just to show how irrational their argument is.)

Of course, not every tank who forgets their cooldowns belong to one of those two, but the majority of them does ^^;