The correct answer is yes.
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I get vote kicked now and then hit with a 30 minute penalty if anyone dies in a dungeon. Not sure I’ll be playing Cata long.
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Some healers look at the low hps after life tap and don’t understand a warlock’s play style. They think they’re supposed to heal them immediately but most warlocks simply get all those hps back easily with Drain Life. As for letting them die, I never “let” anyone die. In a difficult situation if I can’t heal every one tanks, mages or hunters that protect me if I draw aggro, highest dps, things like that affect how I set my healing priorities.
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Wait until you get vote kicked from a group because people are dying to auto attacks because the tank can’t/won’t hold threat.
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As a regular warlock player, I would say that any warlock who knows their class should rarely need healing. In fact I have had to instruct healers on a regular basis not to heal me unless I hit 25% health.
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Kiss goodbye to a soul stone then.
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Depends on lock. Locks who lifetap all the way down to no health in between pulls instead of eating/drinking can be annoying. I drink when I can. But if I’m 50% mana I might tap a couple times only bringing my health down a little bit. My buff can usually fill it up. An occasional renew or rejuv is all I ever need really unless I’ve pulled aggro from boss or something.
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if you let people die on purpose are you a bad healer?
the correct answer is yes.
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No, no I do not unless they are standing in stuff and also life tapping.
Throw them some hots and move on.
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I know it’s a troll thread, but if you can’t top a tank in greens and a lock life tapping you honestly shouldn’t be playing a healer, or at least read up on your class or something.
Buy wotlk consumes like runic mana and pure mojo flask, they’re a few silver each on my server. Buy spirit gumbo food which is a few silver each. Read and understand your new talents and spells and glyphs. Use the DMG spells that refund mana. Run ahead of the tank so you can sip more. Get mage food in an AV then abandon
posted from my alt char which is in horrific gear and spell pen gems and never had a death in a heroic.
The best warlocks are the one at 100% HP who see you casting a fat mouseover heal without even targeting them, then they tap in time
You don’t even have to drain life as a lock. You get heals from your single target spells because of fel armor(6% single target dmg converted to health).
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I always heal life tapping warlocks up, but its annoying when they do it and don’t eat while I’m drinking, especially when a mage drops a table in that same group. Although, I used to main a warlock and very rarely did i need to tap that much.
They don’t even need to eat, they get Soul Harvest at lvl 12 on 30 sec CD for a quick out of combat regen.
Some certainly use that, and I appreciate it when I see it. Some don’t even while they’re picking their nose at 20-30% health waiting for me to drink.
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If a warlock is life tapping out of combat, they should also be using soul harvest to restore their health. It doesnt take that long either.
In combat, if my mana is running low, i might drink a mana pot as well as life tap, then immediatly drain life.
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if I were a terrible healer who doesnt know how to manage overhealing and keeps running oom, perhaps. But since Im not, I dont.
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I have 2 characters at preraid BIS or better and have never seen a healer even get kicked a single time.
Sounds like theres a common denominator in your scenarios…
This, especially now that they have Harvest Souls to restore a big chunk of their health, and it’s only on a 30-second cooldown.
There are some locks out there that will just life tap themselves to zero out of combat, and refuse to use their heal funnel or eat while the other 4 group members are sitting there eating. That itself is poor play and I don’t feel bad about max level locks being booted for it.
Most locks are not like this though, and with how many abilities they have to use to keep up in DPS, they are competent enough to know how to life tap.
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Been paladin healing every single xpac since OG wrath. Life tap has never bothered me, someone takes dmg, I heal. If I didn’t I would feel like I’m not doing my literal only job.
Also from the lock POV, in wrath if I didn’t tap on my lock leveling in dungeons I had to drink every other pull and it limited my damage capacity thus slowing the group down by making the dungeon take longer than necessary - wasting the entire groups time for zero reason. The point of running dungeons while leveling is speed. You don’t like that roll dmg OS and go quest.
Just heal your lock. It’s legit not an issue for me even healing heroic pug dungeons right now in cata, at least not that I’ve noticed so far. Of course the tank and yourself take priority so it’s ok to heal them at a lower priority if you’re struggling to keep up in heroics. If it’s that bad let them know you’re on a tight mana budget till you get gear and ask them to drink between pulls like you are.
Otherwise…if you’re just talking about leveling through dungeons as a healer when you have plenty of mana and no one is dying…then I’m sorry but you are objectively wrong here. Heal them and stop wasting everyone else’s time with your silly stubbornness. It’s really not that hard to do your only job.
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I only life tap within reason as I don’t want to have too low of health to get sniped if the healer is busy, and I play Aff so the haunt usually returns a chunk of that. I’ll life tap a couple times or about 50% health out of combat but no more.
If you’re a lock and you need a healer for mana regen you’re playing the class wrong.
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I throw HoTs on them and heal them if they’re taking real damage, but otherwise trust a max level warlock to play their class well.
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