Hey all, I’m currently level 50 on my Shaman and have been healing a lot of dungeons lately where I’ll have a Warlock who constantly lifetaps down to 10% life and then demands heals when I don’t immediately top him off.
The way I see it my job is to keep everyone alive, not to keep everyone at 100%. So if a Warlock decides to tap down to low hp and doesn’t have aggro on anything, I don’t see any reason to waste mana on him. It seems like if the Warlock had his way he would essentially be pushing 100% of his water costs on to me as the healer.
Am I being unreasonable? What is the established etiquette of healing life taps?
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he doesn’t have any right to demand healing. it’s a courtesy you can provide at your own discretion.
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In my OPINION, healers are only required to keep everyone alive in combat. How they triage that depends on the damage being taken by the tank.
If the tank is having an easy time, nothing wrong with throwing a heal the warlocks way.
However, out of combat, it’s the healers job to stay topped off (mana), other than buffing. And if the warlock wants to lifetap instead of drink during that time, he can heal with food or bandages.
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This is Classic, resource management is an actual thing.
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It might be different for different regions, but in Korea it is not the responsibility of the healer to heal up the loss incurred by life tap. And it is considered rude to life tap too often–I’d say lifetapping more than once every 4-5 pulls.
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This.
If I’m comfortable on mana I’ll gladly heal the warlock killing themself for DPS. In fact, I encourage and am happy with it.
If I am struggling on mana they can heal themselves. I need to keep the tank alive.
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Yeah, I forgot which forum I was in for a second.
It’s largely the lock’s responsibility in Classic imo unless the progression through the instance is faceroll.
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and cannibalism. I don’t mind chucking cheap heals at a lock because I can do Rejuv all day but I need my mana for the big heals.
if they get demanding well screw them. they can use their life drain. I’m saying this as someone with a warlock alt. I plan how I’m going to recover health without expecting the healer to do it for me.
It’s nice when they do, though.
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Thanks guys, I feel vindicated. I don’t mind occasionally offsetting the lifetaps, but a lot of them seem to be very aggressive and like I said it feels like they’re pushing their water costs onto my tab.
I should note that if there’s a mage in group as well I have no problem constantly healing the taps.
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Keep up the great work. I always appreciate healers.
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The Warlocks in my guild laugh at the kind of healers you’ll find in PUGs who actually get upset that they’re using Life Tap.
Then again, our Warlocks don’t Life Tap to 5% HP, then pull aggro and die in one hit, so…
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If you see me life tap to 20% and obviously running in for a Hellfire and you don’t even bubble me preemptively or flash heal me then I don’t even know what to say
These healers need to wake the F* UP!!
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If I was a warlock (more like when I start leveling mine) I would imagine life tapping once or twice after each pull or so would be best tactic to give a small constant amount that was needed to be healed, rather than drain myself until empty.
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Warlocks are responsible for the damage they deal to themselves.
I’ll heal them, if it’s convenient, but they need to be aware of it and be responsible about it.
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I play Lock, so IMO, you can burn mana as fast as possible then Lifetap down to no health repeatedly but its “bad form”. The Lock is probably DPS racing to try and be the highest. Depending on the group makeup this can be crippling and time consuming for the run.
Typically I’ll chat briefly with whomever is healing and let then know up front i dont expect heals to keep me topped. But if they can spare a hot nowand then it would be appreciated.
A Lock that runs oom constantly and LT’s down to no health amd and expects to be healed to full is doing it wrong. A LARGE part of playing a lock is resource and threat management.
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I lifetap alot, but its easier to refill life than mana. A renew or other simple HoT thrown my way is nice and appreciated. Do I need to be healed 100%? No… that’s a waste of resources, I’m going to be using Siphon Life and Drain Life, let those spells get their full effect.
Just simple efficiency.
If you really want to make me happy, throw a bubble on me when I Rain of Fire. But again, just keep the group, and yourself alive. Dead healers make things messy.
And of course, don’t complain about me lifetapping. I’ve been managing it solo pretty well, don’t try to break habits.
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i just throw them a renew and haven’t had a problem so far
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its like these locks have never heard of drain life lol. ive never once had a healer call me out for using life tap. if a lock is using their life tap instead of drinking then you kick those motherf******* out
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well, imo as a warlock, i’m sm/ruin so i got some extra lifesteal capabilities. in dungeons i tap to about 50% and would prefer healers ignore me unless they see an add jump me or something.
if i was demo i’d probably sac void and again consider myself the last person u should b healing.
and i think destro is really a pvp spec so not sure why they’d be that in dungeon