As a dedicated support logi I will pull out all the best gear for my heavies. I will sacrifice kill potential, mobility and a lot of ISK to make sure they feel safe and can stay in the fight. That said, they better listen to me when I tell them to pull back, and they better get between me and the firefight. They are the tank, I am the healer, lets not forget who the more vulnerable one is.

Your point is taken, and I never ask a heavy to look for me, I usually ask if anyone needs a logi. Where I ask a heavy to do things, is while moving. My rep tool doesn't work when I sprint, or when my target goes around a corner. So if a heavy sprints away, I have to turn off the repper. They take a long time to rep, and if they aren't willing to slow down to be healed, it make keeping them alive even harder. Reacquiring a target can also be a huge hassle in the middle of a firefight. So going around corners and sprinting all over the place makes healing the heavy dangerous for both of us. Aiming the repper isn't always difficult, but if other targets are nearby and I have to reacquire, it's a nightmare. Problems like these make it more effective to just pull out a weapon and not worry about the heavy at all.

So these tips and requests are for making our job easier, and that job is to keep heavies in the fight.

Implying Heavies have the speed to actually hunt anybody
You are the defender he is the healer, its a symbiotic relationship
Leave the running and gunning to scouts and assaults

Heavies are NOT the hunters, the scouts are the bloodhounds seeking reddots, assaults are the sheepdogs herding the reddots into the house and the heavies are the bull mastiffs guarding the house.

Heavies are the machines of war that are missing many of the cogs to work properly, guess who holds the other cogs?

You guessed it, those of us who are True Logis (not those Assault scrubs who run Logi cause of tanking ability).

Also, don't you ever insult me or any of my True Logi brethren by calling us merely medics. We're your portable resupply points, we're your own personal messiah when you die, we breathe life back into you, we're your personal machineshop that makes sure your dropsuit integrity is maintained.

We do all of this (and more) while the Heavies simply stand there slinging lead so we can do our job, which is to keep you on your feet taking the reddots off theirs. I never said I should take point either, you're my canary in the coalmine, you go first (though only when I tell you to). You listen and stay close and I'll stay close enough to give you your heavy snacks when you do a good job.

Yeah, you kill, so what, I do so very much more (and I can kill too).

Well lets see, he heals, he resupplies, he can potentially hack faster, hes much more than just a medic and far more important than someone that goes pew pew, and I say that as someone that goes pew pew
A good logi can fit in anywhere and have a massive positive effect and lay down the things needed for you to control an entire zone thats why he gets to lead the way towards that spot
Guys like you and me just shoot stuff and without the logi we would end up with no ammo, a shred of armor, and only our shields keeping us barely alive and totally impotent

I haven't played logi since beta but when I did, I always liked to follow heavies until they lead me to a cluster of allies.

It is super annoying as a logi though, when someone you're repping decides to go sprinting away from the group. I died more than once healing people who got a mind to run off into the open while I'm trying to get their health back up. Kind of learned my lesson to let Rambos go die on their own instead of with me in tow.

Word of advice to everyone. If you're getting healed either stay put or find nearby cover. Don't go sprinting into the sunset.

Generally I run into that problem with scouts and assault more than heavies though.