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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7584390" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The worst of it came (IMO) with the transition to 4E, and healing surges. Prior to that, healing was a party-wide resource, so it was always better for the tank to take all attacks, since higher AC meant the party had less average damage coming in (which helped you make the most of your finite healing).With 4E, every character gained a significant amount of free, self-only healing. If the tank was the only one taking attacks, then they would run out of surges and you'd have to stop for the day. In order to keep the entire party going further, sometimes you needed the wizard to charge into melee, to make sure they were able to spend their own healing surges (which would otherwise go to waste).Given how easily characters can recover resources in 5E, it's hard to find the appropriate rate at which to spend them, so as to not have them go to waste. Especially as you get to higher levels, you have to really try in order to reach your limit, before you have to consider holding back.</blockquote>