ZOMG...Firesong the Tank

When I first got duel specialization, I spec'ed into healing but after a few heroic's I realized that healing just wasn't my thing so I shelled out some gold unlearned my holy talents and went tank. Slowly but surely with the help of fellow guild members I was able to build my tank gear up and finally get defense capped. The first heroic I ever tanked was mind blowing, I'm not usually a nervous person but I was for that, luckily I ran with fellow guild members so it was an awesome experience and having darth along to help was quite a learning experience. Then about a week ago Honor and Glory made a Naxx 10 run and I was asked to OT. Oh my goodness I was a nervous wreck, half way in I had pretty well gnawed my fingernails down to the quick ( which is rahful cause I'm not a nail bitter lol) but as time went on I became more comfortable and thus more confident and when we ended the raid, I was told by fellow guildies that I had done a decent job for my first attempt as an OT in Naxx.

I've been Ret from lvl 1, its what I know and am comfortable with, so getting use to tanking is going to take a little bit but eventually it will become like second nature. I have nothing but respect for tanks and healers cause I've done both, and I know from heroics that I've done as dps it is usually either the tanks are the healers that get blamed for a wipe, which isn't always the case and people need to stop the finger pointing when it comes to wiping. I know as I get more confident in my tanking and start doing more heroics at sometime I'm going to be blamed for a wipe, whether it be because I didn't maintain aggro, or I didn't get aggro fast enough...blah...blah...blah, lucky for me I don't take things personally and I'm pretty laid back so negativity really doesn't effect me.

My personal opinion is this, being a dps is easy that's why there are some many dps in the game. Every raid or instance I've ever ran dps was easy to find, it was only tanks and healers that were hard to come by. As a tank you have to constantly make sure all the aggro is on you, because if you lose it for even a split second it could mean a dps or a healer going down. You have to know the ends and out of a fight, how to position a boss just right or where to kite when need be for lack of a better word you have to be the leader. And to all the people who say holding aggro should be easy believe me its not and people who have never been a tank shouldn't make assumptions on things they don't know. Then you have healers, who in my opinion have the hardest job in the group. They have to keep the tanks up, and also make sure that the dps are getting healed as well. I don't know how many times I've heard, "I died because the healer sucked," or "How hard is it to get a heal off." First off its not as easy as you think, in worse case senerios if a tank and a dps are getting ready to die, 10 times out of 10 the healer is going to keep the tank up, dps needs to understand this. Also there is Line of Sight, when I would heal I would get so frustrated when a heal wouldn't go off because the target was out of line of sight and no matter how often I would try to explain this to people in my group they just won't listen, so most of the time they got a free trip to the grave yard. Healing can be stopped through stuns, silence, and interrupts and even the most epic healer is not going to be able t save everyone.

I can honestly say in all the time I've been playing I have never once blamed a wipe on healers, tanks, or dps. The way I look at a wipe is this, shit happens you get up you dust yourself off and you get back in there. Wipes are learning experiences and if you don't like them then you shouldn't be playing this game. First and fore most this is just a game for me, I don't get mad about wipes, or if I don't have the winning roll on a piece of gear (hello I rocked pvp shoulders forever and never once did I get mad about the shoulders I didn't get) and I don't get pissy if I'm not picked for a raid. I'm here to have fun and make people laugh. Thats just me.