The thread has definitely diverged into two different themes.
Theme 1 is about how to play Holy Palladins.
Theme 2 is about the mentality of tanks.
I made this thread to discuss theme 2, although I don’t totally mind the technical discussions either.
You are saying the tanks response was appropriate, I am saying it was uncalled.
Thus, while I appreciate your response, I’m going to reduce it to the relevant sections:
[quote=“Brewbeard-grobbulus, post:111, topic:332861, full:true”]
The answer to your question is that, no, not all healers should behave the same way.
I did not say all healers should do this for all tanks during all fights. I did say that you, as a paladin, are designed to spam your smaller heals. You are not designed to sit around reluctantly tossing a big bomb heal on a tank.
The tank was correct in questioning you. [/quote]
That’s where we disagree. I think if you understood the situation better, you would agree with me to be honest. This was Uldaman, and I admit to being a quest completionist, so decided to complete this quest . . . at level 52.
Ignore the avatar, I’m actually level 53 right now.
So, I was about 5-6 levels higher than the rest, and the big emergency heal I was using was a downranked holy light.
Strangely, there were other level 50s there too, so it ended up being a fairly easy affair.
Nevertheless, this was a nervous tank, and never pulled more than three mobs at a time. To tell you I maybe drank like five times the entire way.
Also, the comment didn’t come early, it came after like more than half of Uldaman was done, so by now, considering no one had died or had any issues, you think he would be pleased with the smoothness of the run.
Instead, I got “wtb a heal”
Like, ok, sure, I get you want to discuss all these things related to how to play holy pally. I’m saying I was overleveled for a place, had everything in control, and I was using downranked spells for efficiency too. I simply wasn’t spamming because a FoL from me would have overhealed big time had I done that. Spamming a severely lower FoL just to maintain him above 90%?
I don’t agree with the premise that this tank was upset with my lack of spam healing because I am a holy palladin. I think this tank was simply scared because they consider spam healing a sign they will be allright, and seeing their health dropped just gave the person anxiety even though I knew they would be fine.
I responded with “ur safe”, and the tank didn’t say another word after that.