Heroic Shattered Halls

[Kevin]

But it can be so much less than that! Next time you're in such a run, see how far you can go with no healing. Some encounters you may have to, but if you make a real effort things can be more fun. This also frees you up to DPS (such as it is). This can help make things fun (but remember to tell your tank).

Me: "Dang it Frag, I had to use a direct heal you for on that 4 pull!"
Frag: "What? Why didn't you tell me you were going for no heals? I would have tried to mitigate!"

Heh sounds like when I was tanking UB with my L65 warrior (so about only 2 or 3 levels above level appropriate). I ran off without my healer, Treesh on her priest (in her DPS gear), because she had enough mana, but I didn't pay attention to the fact that she was herbing and killed a bog lord (rest of the group was a 65 mage, 63 mage and 70 mage so pretty solid DPS) without any healing. After I learned that I got even more insane. Of course the challenge of that run was keeping aggro off the mages, especially since I almost never marked anything for CC (I like to hold at least 3 mobs when tanking) and they would take that as license to AoE (especially little Tacita, I think he plays his priest too much and just has to let go and I've tanked for him too many times and I think he trusts me more than he should. :)) and they would split DPS at times since I wouldn't always bother to mark kill order past the 2nd mob (that takes extra time! and while I would try to mark stuff as I'm doing a little target switching, def stance T-clap lets you get pretty lazy on that at times). Good practice though for getting rid of the tanking rust.

But yeah, if that is the case let the tank know and just push stuff, don't use the PoM and renew, wear you DPS gear (which I'm assuming you already do) and go holy nova everything or smite away. I don't expect a healer to only heal on a run. See if you can out DPS the tank (not to hard to do vs a prot warrior, more of a challenge vs a druid). Play with mind controls (Treesh did that a few times, but she could let me know on the spur of the moment since we were sitting by each other so that I wouldn't waste time putting extra aggro on that target).

Of course Treesh will do stuff like that even in several of the heroics because really heroics aren't much different than a gear and level appropriate normal.