How would it be possible for this to happen? Like what, an attack brought the entire group to 1% hp, you healed up and then to totem redistributes it back to everyone being on 20% health?
Because unless the rest of the group took that kind of damage, even reducing them to half hp, you healing to full and then totem sharing it puts you at 60% health which isn’t low hp. What on earth were you fighting? If the first scenario then yeah that’s an off use of SL link, but giving leaders dictation of other people’s abilities formally is not the way to go.
Okay that makes sense, stole the hp, then you facetanked a bolster melee hit which dealt like 20% of your hp. That’s not sarcasm by the way. It’s a very niche situation however and I wouldn’t justify making leaders use other people’s abilities.
In this situation you were thinking of spirit link pertaining to you. Truth be told it would have saved the group, however if this was the case you’d see a lot of leaders (tanks) using spirit link mainly for themselves, when part of the skill of using it IS using the fact that tank tends to hit at higher % after aoes to safeguard the rest of the group, because a tank in a vast majority of situations is safer than any other group member at a similar HP % due to their raw hp and mitigation. The only exception is very low hp % where mobs melee for more than a fifth of your health, but this isn’t a hugely common scenario, certainly not enough to change ownership of abilities.
I mean I’ve played healers, I’ve healed tanks who are like “what is AM, what is defensive” should I be allowed to force their AM casts and defensives to “proper use”?
I get the frustration but ability use must rest with the user.
How does it save the group if it kills the tank that stands between the group and the mobs? They could take maybe 1 hit or maximum 2 each and then they’d be dead. We wiped because I died and they killed the rest of the group within seconds.
So again, you had a bad wipe. Dust yourself off and try again.
Did you at least try to explain the shaman what went wrong? Or did you go your usual scream in caps and ragequit? At that level of keys you will get inexperienced players, mistakes will happen. No need to take away ppl’s cooldowns over one mistake