A question for tanks~

[fledrel]

As a PLD, As long as I stay outta the bad and keep the Enmity; And as long as the WHM stays outta the bad and keeps me alive. I don't care what my HP is. As long as it is above 1.

Granted When I get under 1/4 life I do get a little bit nervous, but as long as I don't die I am ok. Exceptions do occur, but for an AK farm run, anything over half is good enough for any of the pulls. If the tank is geared for it that is.

I say you did fine ^^

Also... I get annoyed when I don't have protect... Just me... but still...

[Ehayte]

tl;dr this whole thread, so sorry if this is repeat sentiment.

I often get frustrated at healers (WHM especially) for NOT doing what you did in that dungeon. As a PLD, I have an absolute bevy of mitigation and other fun CDs, so I would prefer it if you let me extend myself into my CD pool, so that you can extend yourself into your dps pool. Nothing is worse than burning Sentinel and Convalescence and spamming cure on myself when a dps goes down, sending a message to the party to "Raise DPS while I cure, go go", and then I see Cure...Cure II...Cure...Cure II...

Good job! Keep it up and keep getting better every day!

[RapBreon]

I run with the same healer all the time for almost everything. He is unequivocally one of the best healers I've ever seen. He gambles with my life on a regular basis (he rarely loses), my reward is that he pulls 150+ dps whilst healing in AK and 19 minute CM runs. It takes very sound judgement to be able to DPS and heal at the same time.

It's the sign of a very good healer not a bad one (unless they always let people die), to pull good dps and keep everyone up. Someone who can multi-task very exceptionally well. Anybody who says otherwise, probably lacks faith in their own ability to not die (kite, appropriate rotation of CD's, etc.) or have some massive fear of failure. Or just wanted to show off to their friends out of boredom :P

Also as a WHM you're better of spamming Holy as it stuns everything and does absurd damage, rather than dotting, while the tank just chain pulls.

[Lovingmemory]

You're all a bunch of damn clowns if you think it's bad that a healer not heal just because you're not above 99% health. Clearly tank syndrome "I MUST BE ABOVE 99% NURR NURR".

Good on you for being able to understand when you can heal vs dps nullie. *thumbs up*

[HiirNoivl]

I play WAR. I love the WHMs who do not keep me full because I feel comfortable using my self heals and such which also just happen to deal the most damage. and Faster clears are a good thing. It makes it easier for me to get hate when you're not putting Regen on me when I'm full power....... or curing after I get hit once.

Just be ready if I do start dropping a lot of HP. I don't need you there for me all the time, but I need you there when I need you! So long as I don't die, I'm a happy tank.

[Sixoa]

there is nothing more stupid than healer which heal every single mob hit u get and also overheal alot. If i run ak runs with relic +1 dps i got enough to do keeping the aggro from the dps, so i dont wanna fight with a healer who pulls a ton of aggro just curing every single hp .. also please stop using regen when im about to pull mobs !!

[Ondesvin]

from what the OP is saying he likes to DPS to get things moving, but if you play with a warrior tank like i am, sitting at 7500 hp and you keep me on a constant 3.5k hp il leave the dungeon for you will force me to only pull 1 pack and not 2 packs, in fact if i have a WHM that use Cure 1 no SS and sometimes Cure 2 and im never over 75% hp you will slow me down for i wont make the 2 or 3 packs pulls but stay with 1 pack pulls...

[Lethaltyrant]

As a Paladin I have pretty high defense and when in dungeon i will always use my 4 defensive abilities. That being said i havent done to much mage as long as i dont die thats all that should matter if you know the battle well enough and how much damage a for can throw out and know me being at half i wont die ok np if you want to deal some damage go for it i say. I could care less what my health is at as long as its not 0 thats all i ask. Then again iim a very laid back player i dont get so pissed off at players i fought garuda it took us a few times in one match of course but we did it and no one complained everyone left happily with good jobs all around . i think people need to learn to ppl can control a party a mage rather a healer and a tank. Without us the game dont go on

[NovaLevossida]

As a WAR, slow heals or lackluster healing scares me to death. Literally, death, because that's how it ends up in something like Titan if people just want to let me sit at half health during the table flip phase despite me hitting cooldowns and IB and everything else to counter each one that I can. Truthfully, AK is not hard content to run through, and I don't really care too much what my health looks like so long as I'm in no danger of dying. But, as I said, I don't have much faith in random healers, and one that lets me hover around half or lower HP would have me concerned. These are the same type of people who would have me die on something as easy as Garuda hard mode if not for me spamming everything I have to get my HP back up.

Fortunately, those types of people are becoming more of a rarity, and I really don't run into too many bad healers. For something like AK, so long as you keep me comfortably alive, I don't care what else that you're doing.

[Amyas]

You were doing great. As a tank, we should only worry about the whm 'sucking' if we're lying on the floor dead :P (or overhealing... even then its far more 'sucky' to call names)