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Last night I was grouped with my regular healer, just her and I fighting some even level bugbears. In general she never pulls agro from unless a wanderer comes in just as she's casting a heal on me. This, I believe, is because most of the time she's sending me small heals and keeping me at around 80%, and is at a decent distance away (about 30m). Which would suggest that the size of the heal, and the distance between the healer and the mob have something to do with the amount of hate generated.
This theory was solidified a bit for me last night when on one pull, she was in doing melee with me and we got 3 adds all at once, all 3 jumped directly on to me. Usually in this situation she'd step back a few steps and cast a medium sized heal (600ish points). In this instance though, she not only didn't step back but she slapped a 1200 point heal on me, I was at about 95% health already (they didn't hit me near as hard as either one of us expected). Instantly, all three jumped on her, and it took me a good while before I was able to pull both of them off of her. And after grouping with her for the past 3 weeks or so and never having a problem keeping agro off of her, I'm led to believe that the size of the heal and the proximity of the healer play a big role.
EDIT: oh, and thank you for doing this research and posting it!! Very helpful indeed!
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