Anything that makes me drink more is annoying so I don’t usually DPS while healing.

If your tank is watching til your mana bar is full make sure you get your skins first.

I also don’t run up in range of the tank when he gets ready to pull the next mob til *I’m ready*. Then if he pulls while I’m 50 yards back and drinking shame on him.

Granted that leaves me out of the dps loop, but I feel like most of the principles are the same. Don’t go rushing off, wait for everyone to get ready for the next pull, give people time to loot/skin/herb/whatever. Keep a good pace (not too slow, not too fast). And so on.

What’s with that?

I had a great lock on day that would suck his health bar dry while tapping the last mob or two in a pull.

net result… full health and mana bar.

I’m sure there was a little loss in dps, but there was no loss in downtime.

The lock I was healing in Mana Tombs the other night was running off to do battle at 10% health… I let him sweat, he was well down the healing priority list

So locks only get my heals if I am over flowing with mana now

“Oh, you’re dying and want heals? …Nah, you have 70% health. I’ll wait till you have 30%…Look at that! Nice big crit heal! You’re back to 100%! Time for sleep…”

Yeah, and with BoL up, I can just heal a DPS or something who’s standing in the fire, and not worry about the tank at all for another minute and a half. It sucks.

I can haz ore nao?

Not as a standard rule, no

Mobs bar, in case of a cast
Own health bar, in case of oh-shit buttons
Healers mana-bar, mana-bar=0 means dead tank, dead tank not good.

Mind you, I’m still in Outland… If I remember right chain pulling never really happened to 80 when we got access to silly gear. Even then it was more limited than Northrend.

I look forward to the day I have a bottomless mana supply… at the moment I am pulling int and MP5, mana totems, mana spring totems and still coming up low, if not dry (last night was the worst I think)

Mind you, the painful Lock in the party needed the MP5 healers cloak… I told him so, but… whatever… Northrend is 3.5 bars away

Obviously not before I have stated a few times that they can go when ever they want, but if they want heals they better wait for me…

I ran Mana Tombs last night because the Horde were steamrolling the whole Bloodlust BG circuit.

A DK tank in training (I think being instructed by the DPS DK).

it’s been a long time since I was in there and I was burning mana like it was naphalm…. whooosh!

The 1st room, they pulled the whole room… they all had aggro we died.

As they ran back I pointed out I wanted one heal target and no more than 2 packs of mobs, or I left.

The DPS DK died a few times during that run… well a few more times than we all did. 2xsoul stones, 1x reincarnate & a couple of ghost runs…

They had no idea that mana existed though… I’d be on 5% and they be off pulling…

“Where’s the heals” would call a DK
“Back drinking mana” would say the Boomkin.
“Don’t worry, I’m coming to rez” would say Squidly

That’s taking it to extremes… but I can visualize the white knuckles and drops of sweat…

followed by the cheeky smile 10 minutes later…

Pull multiple packs with no warning? – check
Chain pull the entire instance including bosses? – check
Have zero awareness of other people looting mobs? – check
Ignore herbs completely since I don’t pick flowers? – check
Skinning? What? Where? Huh? – check

About the only time I wait for anything is when someone dies, or the healer is completely oom.

Sorry! I never knew! Honest!

And here I was thinking I was an uber tank because I could hold aggro and mitigate damage and not waste time waiting for… well for anything really.

my bad