So, as things stand now for raiding tank captains, our heralds are largely useless unless there is some technique I am unaware of for their survival. Good example is Hrimril right now. The only chance for the pet to survive tanking this fight is to park them on STAY orders off to the side of the dragon. This is not even foolproof because the dragon will breathe or drop puddles on the herald ending their life in short order. We need them up for at least a handful of skills. One of these skills is tied to our shield-brother being alive and is one of our more powerful skills. I try to put SB on the 2nd tank but, then they run off and the SB link is broken. Now instead of tanking I must then swap to the herald to put out a SB link. Much of the time, the herald has died very recently so i must summon them back first. Hrimril smacks the herald upon summoning and now I have wasted time attempting to cast Inspire, then link to pet, then resummon the pet, and now I have nothing to show for it. How is this remotely acceptable to you as developers? A key ability of the captains is disabled because you choose not to make our heralds either resist all/most damage or at least give them a comparable morale pool to match the captain's.

Red cappy herald is largely useless because their dps is rock bottom if it even hits the target. Also, the same issues as yellow captain in that it is quite prone to dying from some nearby effect that hardly touches us, their controller. Luckily, as red cappy I am typically nearby the group so maintaining my Blade-Brother link is less troublesome. Still, the herald can be safely ignored most of the time simply because their value in the middle of a fight is minimal and truthfully I only use my red cappy herald for their big heal ( which requires them to be in combat which opens another ugly can of worms). Sigh.

I choose not to comment on blue spec cappy heralds as the blue cappy ( in theory) should have a lot of HoTs hitting them. Also, it is very rare to see a blue cappy in any sort of raid/instance environment.

Any comments/feedback/tips to share?