I’m a good healer, heal the locks and stop whining about doing your job.
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Lifetapping locks, well they tend to die a lot in my groups.
I hate it, simple as that, i have to double shot to get my mana bar up that’s 40sec worth of drinking not to mention the price of the drinks, having a lock draining my mana to save gold and forcing me to spend even more time drinking, yea i’m not allowing that. During fights i will drop a heal unless they go all hellfire.
If i can see the lock is doing what he/she can to keep themself alive with HS, bandages, drain life and eating while i’m drinking, i’ll be much more inclined to throw them a few more heals if i have the mana for it, they will however still be at the bottom of my heal prio list. If they don’t any of those, they can end up doing a lot of corpse running bc i’m not wasting my BR to get them up either.
Even worse is seeing a lock with 30% mana 100% health and my rejuv ticking into overheal bc they don’t pay attention. If i gave you that hot use it, or you wont get another.
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Yes, absolutely, and in a triage scenario when healer throughput needs to be at max and targets get healed on a priority basis, it’s absolutely required that every class uses its skills to make the healer’s life easier. Warlock drains, mage pops wards/mana shield, feral use tranquility, etc.
Isn’t this a core mechanism of the warlock class? Health is part of their mana bar.
If so it’s just a case of git gud on the healers part. Try and politely explain to him how it works and that’s should be it. And suggest that he only ever uses mana on you when he feels comfortable doing so. Or however a lock should be healed.
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As a druid healer this is one of our major strengths since we heal over time 
so as a healer main i’d love it
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as is Siphon Life, Drain Life and Healthstone… warlocks have plenty of tools to regain their health back, thats why they have life tap. If warlock just life tap without using his tools to regain HP I would just stop healing him.
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I’ve addressed that in a later post.
Those skills are a significant DPS drop, they’re not worth using if healer mana/throughput are not under pressure.
In situation where survival is at stake of course every class is expected to use whatever tools it has to make the healer’s life easier.
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I always say to healers that they don’t need to bother healing me when i spam life tap, i can heal myself just fine. Never had any healer complain so far, nor have i died because of it.
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Looking from the comments people seem to heal as a chore, not because they enjoy healing 
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yeap and death is a total dps loss… so 
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It’s a bit annoying when they life tap to below 20% during a fight but otherwise I have no problem with it
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right as we speak i meat this fabulous lock
https ://i.imgur.com/1tkLZ9a.jpg
And refusing to do your role out of pig-headedness will get you kicked out of a group faster than a Warlock can kill themselves life tapping.
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I think as long as you’re not causing the healer mana issues then it shouldn’t be a problem, if you’re actively causing the healer to go OOM consider slowing down with the tapping.
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This. Logic.
Lifetapping during combat I don’t have a problem with. Hellfiring, same, is part of the warlock class. But not taking the effort to eat/drink after combat and just lifetapping is really annoying. I have to drink up to full, heal the lock(s) and drink again? That’s just a waste of time and my drinks.
As an ex-healer, life tap is fine as long as you don’t abuse it:
- Don’t life tap to fill your mana after combat expecting your healer to fill your health. If the healer drinks, so can you. Even if there’s free mage water, drinking takes time: if you both drink, it’s faster.
- Life tap only when you need mana and only for as much as you need to continue your DPS rotation
- If your healer is low on mana during combat or you still have some left, don’t life tap
- Bring water even if you don’t drink that much yourself. Offer some in advance and the healer will never complain
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That, I agree with. I always eat/bandage between packs in dungeons.
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Maybe don’t life tap when you don’t need to? Warlocks still have the option of drinking too. I mean if you’re low mana mid combat then by all means life tap, but there’s no point doing it alllll the time when you can sometimes drink or let regen do its thing.
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Life tap is fine, but abusive use will result in no heals for the lock. Here is when I will not heal you:
If you don’t eat + drink during breaks (this actually applies to everyone). This is so rude to the healer. Doing this means that I might have to drink an extra time, and use twice as much water just to top you off. If we don’t have a mage in the group, you are actually using my gold to spare your own. I am not a charity, and you are slowing down the dungeon, wasting everybody’s time.
Some locks seem to think using life tap replaces drinking/eating.
In regards to money on water. As a shaman, I can spend up to 40-60 drinks on an endgame dungeon run. Without a mage that costs me between 3.2 to 4.8 gold, on water alone. I’d rather not spend any more than that in your stead.
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