Healers, how do you feel about DRK tanks?

[Lium]

This is purely anecdotal but I get nervous when I have a DRK tank to heal. PLD and GNB is cool, WAR I basically don’t have to do anything, but DRK I feel like I have to blow all my CDs on SGE and the tank still dies on large pulls. This is just in EW dungeons. Boss fights are fine.

Let me disclose that my gear is still basic. I’m in the 89 quest gear, and just now got the 90 weapon. As soon as I get more tomestones, I’ll get 90 gear. I’m also still adjusting to barrier healing. I love AST and WHM can be fun, albeit a bit boring. But SGE with DRK tanks is harrowing for me.

I’m an average player at best but enjoy healing. And I’ve actually been in groups with other SGE healers and DRK tanks and the tank dies. Not often, but it happens. I’m just curious if other healers feel the same or not.

[Escalon]

I don't care to be honest. The only difference is that I have to pop a heal more often than other tanks.
I main all healers, except not WHM because I find the class too boring.

A decent SGE will have not a single problem to keep the DRK alive. You just pop your shield before the pull, pop one after the initial pull, drop a HoT and just sling your OGCD's on him.

[Itsgigglez]

I've healed a Drk as a Sge, Sch and Ast. I've had to problems and it doesnt bother me any.

[kejakalope]

My Sage is still wearing basic AF and 90 dungeon accessories. I have no trouble healing any of the tank classes. They all feel a little different but none of them are any trouble as long as they're played halfway competently.

[seida]

Fine, recently I feel like I have much worse experiences with GNB to be honest.

[Katt_Felista]

While leveling dungeons, Drk feels like the weakest physical Tank, needing to pop much more instant casts on them than any other job, especially when they are not geared or are getting geared in the progression / dungeons as they go. Honestly feel like 1/3 of natural physical mitig has been removed from them, the worst offender is when they are still in the process of gearing up and do wall to wall pulls, even as a whm i've had a fair share of sweats, and leveling my Drk, i also encountered this issue personally even juggling with the mitigs i had if i wanted to do big pulls.

Overall it felt weaker in the defense department than other Tank jobs.

[SenorPatty]

Look, I get that all the other tanks got shiny new mitigation toys that have made healer's live easier but some of ya'll act like drk is some brittle pristine doll that's gonna break if you so much as breathe away from their general direction. Where were all these complaints about them in dgns in shb? Oh right, the bandwagon hadn't shown up at your local bus stop at that time.

[Michieltjuhh]

I haven't felt that any of the tanks are particularly weaker than others in dungeons, but that it's more a player issue. With the exception of Warrior, of course, which is just busted right now.

I will however continue disliking the design of Living Dead, but this is more an issue in raids than in dungeons (as SGE anyhow). The only time I have asked my tank to use an immunity in the level 90 dungeons was when I was still running WHM in them and didn't want to stop spamming Holy.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Indifferent, if that’s even the right word.

Coming from ShB as a main SCH, I’m already very used to slow down & controlling the rate which tank’s HP plummets rather than quickly restoring lost HP like the regen healers counterpart. There is no actual need to ‘blow off’ all cooldowns (assuming within span of very few seconds) because that usually means I’m not regulating or making use of my tools properly, tanks not rotating mitigation properly, or both of them.

Of course not everything are rainbow & unicorn. Then again even if it’s a paper DRK, SGEs can still do wonderfully. Perhaps a few more E.Diagnosis but most of time they’ll still dancing around with those Dyskrasias.

[Genbe197]

I love them. Drks who use TBN on trash are like the easiest tank next to warrior to heal. You're bubble is always going to break on trash packs there is zero reason to not use it on CD