I'm a warrior and things dont always go perfect.
Sometimes a runner away slips away brings a truckload of adds, sometimes the priest runs out of mana, or dies, or lags out, and I end up pulling my red potion which gets all my potions into a cooldown, which i think it's 3 minutes but i never remember to check in the middle of the heat of the fighting. And ocassionally in these situations, even when it is countrary to the nature of the warrior, i can manage to pull out of the aggro before dropping dead and then pull a bandage and go back to the fighting. (Yah you guessed it if you're thinking I'm a pretty agressive warrior).
Sometimes a party member dies when I do that, sometimes not, but I know if I fall dead in those situations it's all the party that dies.
One thing I can assure you is that bandaging DOES produce threat, I guess it's affected by the threat increase bonus of defensive stance so I'm more likely to notice it than some others. I've had it being obvious in many situations but I'll relate one that makes it most most obvious.
I was in party with a rogue once and needed healing, just warrior and rogue. So the rogue backstabbed and got aggro as they usually do and I let rogue take the aggro for a few secs while I walk back to bandage. When I started bandaging the monster instantly turned to me and the bandage managed to heal about half-way only because I had enough distance to have the monster walk a few steps before he could reach me. So I guess this clears it up, it not just produces threat, it produces a truckload of it.
As for after-fight self healing, I take up cooking and fishing. Cooking is good because you get self healed after battle very good and get a bonus buff to sta and spi called "well fed". And fishing is mainly a means to increase cooking skill but I keep a stack of the best-healing fish for the purpose of healing without consuming away the cooked meals that give the well fed buff. I never bring more than a stack of fish because most monsters usually drop some foods anyway and if they dont and I run out of fish I just consume the well feeding meals.
PS: Yes, I hate having to wait for the mana people, I've seen so much talk about warrior having more downtime because it cant heal and in the end, the mana guys are the ones that have their mana downtime all the time.
Edited, Tue Aug 23 13:04:13 2005 by xorq