tanks not using cooldowns?

[Syzygian]

You can still compensate for many things.

The other day in EX roulette (Antitower) I ran into a WHM who felt the need to alert me in party chat before I'd even loaded into the instance, that he/she was only going to heal.

I wasn't sure if they were being lulzy or what (I half expected sardonic holy spam) - I did the first little 3-mob pull and watched as my HP sat neatly at 23K or whatever it was at the time, while Cures were slung at my very much topped-off HP pool, repeatedly, until everything was dead.

What'd I do? I dropped Grit for the entire dungeon (I do it all the time on bosses but not usually for trash pulls). I didn't change my game either, I pulled everything I could at every opportunity and only popped one cooldown at a time. I wasn't about to let that Cure spam to waste in the void of overhealing. I lost hate on a mob a couple of times but not for long enough to cause an issue. I'd never done a dungeon like that before with pugs, and probably never will again.

No one said a word for the entire rest of the dungeon, I never died (nor did anyone else), got 2 comms, and the run took ~20ish min like all my other EX runs. :]