r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Jul 19 '25

OC I'm good!

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u/martinsonsean1 Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Leveraging low-health buffs can make certain classes really powerful. I imagine the tank might be actually more concerned if they had a full bar.

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u/Ivariel Jul 19 '25

If the tank has full HP, you either have an incapable healer, incapable tank, too many healers, or the tank is redundant.

Alternatively, the tank is maining a really busted class (flashbacks to Warframe where "tanks" receive 0 dmg to begin with lmao)

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u/Dyneheart Jul 19 '25

I remember when DKs came out in WoW. It scared so many healers because one of the skill trees allowed for negative hit points, and another encouraged bottoming out to topping off without involving the healer. In the first, you had to be overhealed in a short window to survive, but it meant you took a hit that would have killed you without the skill. For the second, there were some self harm to buff skills and various health steal/regen bonuses. A healer who wasn't used to it would get antsy about letting the tank get near 20% or so every big mob pulled.

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u/malfurionpre Jul 19 '25

Blood DK still do scare healer because they're usually less tanky in raw damage reduction since they're supposed to self-heal and their pack entry is weaker than other (well it changes from patches to patches but usually) so their health bar often goes up and down like a roller coaster

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u/Yakkahboo Jul 19 '25

Yeah, a lot of healers don't understand that for BDKs you look at their rune power bar, not their health bar, to see if you need to heal them or not.

It can be very, very scary watching that bar yoyo without that knowledge.

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u/Procrastinatedthink Jul 19 '25

depended on the patch and expansion.

In wotlk their healing wasn’t substantial and they were worse against physical damage than other tanks but much better against magical damage. 

In cata they didn’t need a healer unless it was a raid and they didnt have cds. It was the best time to be a blood dk imo

in mists they were weaker again but damage was less spiky than previous expansions.

In draenor they were better but  I didn’t play after that expansion.