Quote Originally Posted by Belgianbeer View Post
For example have I seen it multiple times that they just let people die if they are out of range for heals instead of running towards them (and lose some personal dps in the process). While I know that as a well positioned healer you shouldn't have to chase people, I'd much rather lose the healer dps than risk losing an actual dps, no?
A well placed healer shouldn't have to chase the tank. Sometimes (mostly I find in Alliance Raids, as in other cases the battlegrounds aren't really large enough for this) DPS will frequently position themselves such that you are either in range to heal your alliances tank or that DPS. So when raid wide damage goes out or they screw up a mechanic, healing them requires abandoning the tank. So that's why if a DPS is way outside of my range I might not run off and heal them- if I can close the distance quickly without going out of range of the tank I will do that. But if that DPS is so far away that I can't get to them easily then I think it's more dangerous to abandon the tank to heal them than it is to let them die. That is, it may be that these healers you're seeing not going after far away DPS aren't protecting their own DPS, they're not gambling with the tanks life.