How many more times must our Living Dead get griefed?

[Alice_Rivers]

I think LD automatically places itself at the top of the buff list so that it's visible in the party list regardless of how many buffs the DRK has, if not then it should. I do find it hard to believe that many people are griefing you though... I'm sure there are a lot of healers who are ignorant of tank mechanics and one the first recommendations I give to new healers after they get their basics down is "Go watch a play guide or two for each of the tanks so you understand how they work" specifically to avoid these sorts of issues. That said, even with three years of healing under my belt now, I still sometimes clip people's LDs with a benediction or synastry when one of us has bad timing, I get it with superbolide too which is even more frustrating. But more often than not when I see an LD I stop healing entirely and keep an eye on HP and the timer with fingers on a major heal/combo to pull the DRK out when they hit two seconds or so.

To your claim that the basic requirement of a tank is that they heal themselves, no. Just no. That's WARs thing and we don't need four WARs making the entire healing profession obsolete. The basic requirement of a tank is to mitigate damage, if they can patch themselves up a little here and there so much the better. It should be the healer's job to heal and if tanks had less self-healing and enemies did more damage to justify tank mits as they are then healers would be forced to do their job. That's what you should be demanding, giving tanks more self-heals only gives healers LESS reason to do their own job and makes the situation worse for everyone, also consider the following: Good tanks make complacent healers, complacent healers make good tanks. Bad tanks make good healers, good healers make bad tanks.