I tried healing H ToC last night with a group of guildies and it was a dismal failure. We were on the faction champions and they ripped through the tank like tissue paper. I threw everything I had at him and I couldn't keep him up. Mana wasn't an issue because he died before I could go OOM.
Now I've run a lot of heroics with this same group and I've never had this kind of trouble before. None of us are hard-core guys but we know our way around a 5man. I'm in full ilvl 200 epics and the tank is slightly better geared. I run as holy which I know isn't ideal for tank healing but I've been able to make it work everywhere else.
This is me. I won't link the tank because I don't know if he wants his character up for public scrutiny. I will say that he has 30k HP unbuffed, is defense capped and has decent avoidance. He is sometimes slow on ground obstacles so he might have been getting comboed with poison puddles and a whirlwind. I was too busy spamming heals and muttering curses at the GCD to know for sure.
So these are my questions. What is the expected gear level to see success in there? We had the warrior, hunter and rogue, I'm guessing this is a particularly bad combo to heal through but are they THAT much worse than the rest? Am I crazy to think that a holy priest that isn't over-geared can successfully heal it?