Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
I strongly disagree here. Off-healing not only takes a bit of the load off the WHM, but it's great for hate building as well. While not all fights allow you to do it properly, fights like Ifrit, where you have melee in proximity of your casting range, are easy to target with the Function keys, and Holy Succor will usually cure all they need while still giving you a decent push in enmity.

You view it as a cumbersome distraction, but I really don't feel it's like this at all. Sub-targeting isn't really an issue if you use function keys, and even if you don't, it isn't all that hard to tab through to your target depending on your positioning. Plus it isn't going to cost you much enmity at all, assuming you're curing someone who needs it where you would gain moderate enmity AND cure yourself for half that amount.
I view it as a distraction because you're supposed to focus on your own survival while tanking. It's a world of difference between being a DPS off-healing (which I've done as a Ret paladin in WoW and a melee RDM in FFXI) where you don't have to worry about what the boss might do in your face while you're tossing heals in between breaks of your damage rotation. It'd be another thing if it were like cures cast to recapture hate while a mob is trodding towards a party member (which I've also done in FFXI when tanking as a PLD), but off-healing as the tank's jobs is not going to be good news. All it does is create unnecessary stress on a job whose role is already stressful enough. It's like expecting a healer to also do close to top DPS.