Who would you rather heal? WAR or PLD?

[YunieAura]

Question in the topic line: Who would you rather heal? WAR or PLD?

From personal experience, I like healing warriors more. I am a WHM. To me, they seem to take less damage/hold hate better. Perhaps I haven't run into a "good" paladin yet. I'm level 50 and all of the paladins I have grouped with on the way to 50 and at 50 have been not-so-good. Is paladin harder to play or something? Oh well. Which do you prefer?

[Chiramu]

Depends on the player and how well they can tank. If they are a good tank then I don't mind which to heal.

[NintenPyjak64]

If I'm SCH I'd rather heal PLDs because I could put my heal buff on them, let the Fairy heal more while I put DoTs on the boss to help take it down faster, but if I'm WHM I'd rather heal WARs because I have more burst heals and a Regen I actually have the power to control (untill they fix the pet's Obey functions)

[Kupo_Nut]

doesn't matter to me, as long as they are well geared and don't get 2 shots from trash mobs.

Although, WARs sometime look like derps to me for some reason...

[Rillifane]

Same as other people above don't mind which so long as their gear is on par with their level and are not terrible. Though warriors have a slight advantage over paladins on the tonberry king with being able to take 5-6 stacks of grudge instead of 3-4 for paladins.

[Jamez82]

I haven't noticed to much of a difference.

[duceTRE]

To me, a tank is a tank plan and simple. I am a WHM, and if they need healed I heal them.

[Voidlust]

I prefer to heal the good tanks over the bad tanks.

Paladin / Warrior makes no difference to me. I have seen both be exceptional tanks in both mitigation and maintaining agro, and I have seen both fail miserably not even being able to withstand the alpha strike of a trash pack let alone hold agro on it.

It's all about who is driving in my book, not what they drive.

[duceTRE]

To me, a tank is a tank plan and simple. I am a WHM, and if they need healed I heal them.

[Nailkita]

From my experiences so far I've preferred Paladin, mostly because my pocket tank is a Paladin, I find he's less spikey to heal holds aggro well, and hell last night when things got a little out of hand he threw me a heal so that I could get everyone back up from some major aoe damage that I wasn't prepared for. It's also in part that I've had a super squishy warrior tank where I practically had to spam cure 2 to keep his face off the floor, taking the Global cooldown to Esuna him got him killed. And having a jerk Warrior yell at me for not healing when he was killed by multiple final stings because dps wasn't focusing targets.

Outside of the bad experiences PAL/WAR seem fairly equal, I've just had best luck with my pocket pally as a white mage.