Quote Originally Posted by Jpec07 View Post
Wrong! This isn't WoW; the majority of your cooldowns aren't "OH SHIT" buttons. Your cooldowns are there to help you mitigate damage, so you take less and require less healing, so the healers can spend more time on the rest of the party and/or DPSing, because a healer in cleric stance is going to severely outclass a tank's DPS. If you're not cycling your cooldowns and using them effectively, you have no one to blame but yourself for slow runs, high damage, complaining healers, deaths, and wipes.
I'm not completely self-sufficient without a healer, that's the reason we have them. With a known healer, yeah, I'll cycle cooldowns, because I know he's not going to let me die. But I've had way too many deaths where I didn't watch a single heal get cast at all. I need my cooldowns for those idiotic periods, with a healer like that, my cooldowns are wasted during the time they actually know where their heal buttons are.