tanks not using cooldowns?

[HoodRat]

Or... You can just heal... My cooldowns are for when you go stupid and I'm getting dangerously low on HP and you're still DPSing the mob instead of doing your job and healing me. If this game wasn't so obsessed with the DPS that tanks and healers do, then we'd be more willing to cycle our cooldowns to make your job easier. But the problem is that half the healers don't heal. My cooldowns are for emergencies / HUGE hits from bosses, not so that you can dps an add. Sorry, bad healers ruined it for everyone.

I can't understand why so many people are against tanks and healers doing as much dps as they can while still doing their role. I have never played an mmo in which non dps classes didn't try to pump out as much dps as they could. Ironically, it's been the dps classes who don't seem to want to dps. I guess some people just want to get their money's worth and spend the full allotted time in dungeons.

[rockint]

I can't understand why so many people are against tanks and healers doing as much dps as they can while still doing their role. I have never played an mmo in which non dps classes didn't try to pump out as much dps as they could. Ironically, it's been the dps classes who don't seem to want to dps. I guess some people just want to get their money's worth and spend the full allotted time in dungeons.

Doing as much damage as you can is perfectly fine, as long as I'm not dying because you're DPSing instead of healing. Your PRIMARY job is to heal the group. If I die because I had no heals from you in 20 seconds, you failed as a healer. If I died because you suck at healing in cleric stance, you failed as a healer. THAT is why so many of us SAVE our cooldowns, because so many of you let us drop in HP and die, while you're still tunneling on trying to win the DPS meters. HEAL US, do damage in between, but healing is your #1 priority.