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.
Some big BS here. SL is a talent, not every lock is affliction, Drain Life after tap is extremely inefficient DPS wise and Healthstones … you were joking, right?
That being said when to tap and when to heal a tapping warlock is entirely situational. Also eating/drinking between pulls is common courtesy for everyone.
Healers need to have good situational awareness. This is tricky because it’s a so called “non technical” skill - you either have it or you don’t.
If you’re just focused on looking at hp bars and wasting heals on lifetapping warlocks then you’re gonna have a hard time.
You have to look and listen to what’s happening as well as looking at hp bars. I’m not saying don’t heal warlocks, but look at the situation and ask yourself “can I spare the lock a heal here?”. Now, most of the time that’ll be a yes but like I say, it depends.
Some warlocks will say not to heal them when lifetapping so in those cases just leave em to it.
I’m doing it all wrong then haha. I don’t get it tho, it’s very little effort to toss a heal on someone and I really don’t mind it, I’m there as the healer. I would appreciate what your friend says to his healers but I wouldn’t accept it. He’d still get heals :D.
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My friend would straight up stop life tapping just because of that, he feels so bad when healers decide to heal him after a life tap as he doesn’t want to be a nuisance hahaha, bless you!
That’s one way to look at it, but another way to look at it is the mana cost to heal the warlock. One heal and he’s back to full, so the warlock basically get 50-100% of his mana back from using 5-10% of the healers.
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Mana just pretty much isn’t a thing full stop. It exists and thats about it.
Maybe. Ost are forced to heal. Im feral and 9 times out of 10 im not aloud to dps when ipug. Thus i dont pug. And all my problems end there =)
Having said that. Mb is mb. If lock doesnt sit and drink during it im not healing him up. While fighting i will heal him just as i would anyone else. Life tap i have no problem with. More dps is a good thing.
But if it becomes hairy and lock is carrless. He will die. Tank is a priority.
This isnt a rral problem i think. Ive never had a problem with locks. Its just communication and some ranfom dudes entitlement that sparks up now n then.
One way to offset it, if I remember well (It’s been like 14 years) is weaving it in with your rotation. It’s natural enough. Most locks just drool at the meter and life tap after a fight, when the healer is focused on their own mana regeneration, either by drinking or the five second rule
HEALER COMPLAINING ABOUT LIFE TAP = Kick Healer, Inv new one - this type of healer sux anyway xD
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That’s not how things work. Healers and tanks are in short supply where as DPS is EASILY replaceable.
You adapt to your tanks and healers, not vise versa.
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I think this is quite an interesting topic for discussion actually. I could only imagine how annoying it must be for healers trying to keep up with mana regen as is, considering the fast pull mentality a lot of people are playing with. However feeling obligated to then top up a never ending warlock health pool is probably quite tiring.
Of course it depends on the nature of the players. Warlocks can recover a lot of their HP, however it’s likely at a DPS loss and therefore would really prefer to be healed.
Yes you are right, healers and tanks are short … and yes i know… i am a healer soo… i dont have to adapt.
… buuuut most of the healer who cry like babys ARE BAD, and i dont know if i would have fun to die in a Dungeon over and over again xD
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That is true, but I’d just play safer with a bad healer and then blacklist them after the run rather than spend 10 minutes looking for a new one.
Sometimes it’s taken me an hour to find a healer, because I tend to play at 3- 4 am.
Yes i understand that xD i also play at 4.30-7 am xD that isnt a the best time to swap anything xD
You mean you think they are wrong. From the replies here it seems to be a situational thing.
Maybe ask him to not heal you specifically? It seems a bit silly to assume a healer wont heal, he sees damage, so he heals
There is only 1 side - your healer was a moron. Life tap is the ability the class revolves around.
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Healer should be happy!.
Run goes faster, faster XP, everyone happy.
Some bad healers always try to top me and complain when i tap down to 70% tho…
A happy lock is at 70% hp 70% mana.
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Healers should learn what is a warlock before cry about it. So you can know where you should heal or not.
You can also know if it is warlock fault or not when he/she dies.
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That’s excellent point actually.
400 mana, which is about 10% for me will heal you 50% of your HP/mana pool and if its lucky crit it can be way more, so yeah its very efficient actually.
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