I started playing DRK recently after playing most of the game as a DPS (BLM) and a Healer (I became a SGE when EW came out). I've been learning how to use mitigation, how to pull during dungeons and stuff like that. I'm currently at lv67. Today I was spamming Bardam's Mettle so I could level from 65 to 67 and in 2 of those runs I got matched with 2 WHMs.

I did the usual thing: pulled the first group of 3 mobs, popped Rampart to mitigate, rushed towards the second group of mobs, then popped Shadow Wall once Rampart went off. In both runs I died twice during those pulls despite doing my best to mitigate damage and avoiding AoEs. Both WHM refused to heal me to prioritize their DPS. I even said "screw it, Living Dead" in one of the pulls, which triggered Walking Dead and the WHM still refused to heal me.

Granted, both runs went rather smoothly regardless because they rez'd me, like, a half a second after death (they were quick to react to me dying, but not quick to react to my HP dropping like WoW's playerbase?), so I didn't complain in chat. I was just wondering why they let me die for no reason. Maybe they're not aware of how DRK works and expected me to have a ton of self-healing like the WAR has? I don't know.

I'll give that I was "undergeared". Quotation marks because it's not like I was using white gear from Gil vendors. I had the full lv60 Poetics set, and since Poetics vendors don't sell lv65 stuff, I gotta stick with it until I'm lv70.

I ran the same dungeon again later on because I still needed some EXP and I got a SGE who let my HP drop to around 30%~40% before healing me back up to around 80%. All I had to do in this run was alternate Rampart and Shadow Wall between pulls, it went rather well.

So, am I the one doing something wrong? Both as a Tank (because I didn't use mitigation correctly, perhaps?) and as a Healer (because I prioritize my Tank's HP over my DPS when I'm playng SGE)?