You are a warlock. The healer is required to heal you. Just dont life tap bellow %20.
I generally don’t heal the warlock unless he takes aggro in a teamfight. Even then, I prioritize the tank.
Your job as a healer is not to keep everyone at 100% HP but to keep them alive. Don’t heal unless you have to. In a confused teamfight (e.g. aggroing an extra pack), if the warlocks is oom and Life Tap to very low, it is your call to heal them or not. Do their DPS will help in the situation or should you focus on the tank?
Warlocks need to learn to use Life Tap; it is not a spell you spam and they do have means to heal themselves (potions, hearthstones, Drain life, bandages and eating/drinking between fights).
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I am not refusing to play my role I am refusing to spent time and gold for hippies that dont know how to use their tools or use food/bandage
EDIT: I am talking for warlocks that abuse the life tap. If we are on combat and warlock have no mana to continue dps, then by all means use life tap. If he uses life tap when on 50% + mana to avoid end his mana or to avoid drink water/food after fight then I am not healing…
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Why? Just heal if you can spare the mana. Don’t make a drama out of nothing. Use common sense.
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I am not creating a drama… I may end the fight at 50% mana and be able to continue without drink… or I might be able to take advance of 5 second rule… you creating the drama here… life tap should be used when necessary not a mean to avoid drink/eat or use a potion.
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If he’s using lifetap to save mana AFTER a fight, then it’s a pain… Because I have drink > heal > drink AGAIN… just so he can save mana.
It’s literally the only problem I have with, when locks do this.
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first i read hater complaining on life tap then i think haters gonna hate then read healer and i think healers gonna heal but i drink water sometime i share with healer if healer dont have and i also eat food and use drain life rank 1 2 3 4 to save mana and always get heal edit: 69 reply to message lol
if you lifetap yourself down to 10% hp after every pack you are a moron
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Personally I try to avoid healing Warlocks who tap. The good ones will bandage, the bad ones will stand their on low life waiting.
If they are good, I will give them heals where possible. If they are bad they can sod off.
Warlocks have to tap for mana, when playing a lock I used to weave tap into the ‘rotation’ rather than just tap like crazy all at once. It makes it look less like a damage spike.
Some healers need to just prioritise. Do others need healing and is the lock tapping? Heal the lock last. If it’s out of combat and he taps? Don’t heal him, he can eat.
Both parties can do this amicably without being trashy. Locks that life tap mid fight, understand full well they’re not a high prio for a heal, and a good healer will throw a hot your direction if he has the time.
If you find the golden balance of life tapping just enough so when you EAT (and yes you do eat after the pulls, dont edxpect to get healed) you and the healer both regen to max at the same time so none of you are slowing the dungeon then yes you can life tap.
I don’t mind doing it provided they don’t to it at ridiculously dumb times. Annoying af when an oom lock hellfires to 5 health then spams life tap as soon as i waste my divine favour topping them
Or you can tell the lock to chill with his lifetaps and not waste everyone’s time.
I dont mind locks taping and healing them, ofc if tank is in danger, sorry lock tank is prio, but what realy grind my gears are lock that taps after fight, to 10%hp so they have full mana, i drink, and they kust stand there like " yo man u gona heal me or what"… Like, dude between pulls simply eat… Some locks are simply different than others…
If healer has mana and can’t spare a renew, he’s an @ss.
If warlock just spams lifetap and stands there like a pleb while the healer finishes drinking, he’s an @ss too.
These kind of discussions just bring out all the bitter players from each side of the argument and don’t really get anyway 
Someone complaining doesnt mean anything if they’re wrong. Healer, tank or whatever.
I have no issue with it and I’ll usually pay attention to it because I’ll know not to panic but just throw a renew regularly. I’ve had quite a few locks who are really cautious with it and watch the flow of fights well. I appreciate that, it’s nice if it doesn’t add stress during a hectic fight but otherwise zero issue, it’s just a mechanic which enables them to dps more. Win win in my book.
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It’s because, during combat, the healer is focused on the health bars of the groups. He’s not looking at what you’re doing, just what your health is doing. He sees your health going down, he assumes you’re getting hit and heals you.
The alternative for the healer is to stop focusing on the health bars and look at what you’re doing to determine if you’re being attacked or just life-tapping, but if he’s doing that then he’s not concentrating on the health of the tank in particular and the group in general, which can lead to deaths/wipes.
It’s bad etiquette to do it in combat, especially if combat is frantic and everybody is taking damage.
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You can hear it tho. One of the reasons I greatly prefer healing with in game sound on, there are many little things happening that you register simply by listening 
My best friend is a Warlock. He life taps all the time, but tells the healer not to worry about healing him when he life taps as he’ll bandage up or die trying sorta deal. I thought by now people knew that you don’t heal a life tapping warlock, they’re just trying to regenerate mana and make stuff die faster.
Now to look at it from the healers perspective, they can’t always know if you’re life tapping or not, but USUALLY the lock shouldn’t be surrounded by mobs, but be at a nice distance away from the pull, and that should be a good enough indicator that hey… The lock isn’t dying, he’s just life tapping. That’s my view on it anyway.
I’d say keep doing what you’re doing.