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Leinad:
Dude... wierd... Our GM was the dude and his wife was the main healer too... ok, this is a little odd.

est:
It's not really all that odd.  When you think about it the MT and healer are the archtypical dad & mum of the guild.  Our main healer was the GM in EQ, only he was a dude.  He was an older chap with a very level head and it worked very well.  We burned through MTs though, because generally they tried to take over and either got knocked down a couple of pegs or left in a huff.

Leinad:
Yeah, main tanks (I was one, so I should know) tend to develop very large ego's, but a lot of this is that in PUGs and guilds it is often the Main Tank who is willing to work the hardest and it just sort of draws a type of person; one who knows what to do and wants to be in charge. Lord knows I was like that. It was why I pushed towards making a second raid group in our guild so I could head it up and not have to off-tank and not be raid leader (which I hated).

Statik:
I've always hated most dedicated tanker players I've ever had to deal with.  Most of the ones I've had the displeasure of dealing with seem to think that they are somehow gods gift to the game, and give absolutely no credit to the healer keeping their ass alive.  Every part of a group is important, from DPS to tanking, to healing, etc.  Everyone has a role. 

What interesting about that though, is that the best tanks I have ever played at are always the ones who weren't assholes about it.  Most of the assholes were things ranging from mediocre to good, but rarely excellent.  (And they all thought they were better than they were)

To be fair, my perception of such things may be tainted by the fact that I tend to loathe pve.

Leinad:
Well I definitetly was not an ass-hole, and I basically always worshiped the ground that a good healer walked on, kissing every place they stepped. If you find this odd, you have not played as a tank trying to organize a raiding group.

As for DPS: Hah! No DUH they are important, but it is pretty easy to find a DPSer if you are willing to put up with people who make Terrel Owens look modest. The real challenge is finding a well-geared DPS who is not a douche-rag. My guild eventually ended up with a bunch of them, which was nice.

I don't have a huge amount of experience with other tanks besides this one guy I leveled with from level 10 and the other two tanks in the guild who were both really nice. The reason being is that I always was tank for an instance, almost never dpsing unless it was to help gear out a tank in the guild. What frustrated me most was trying to DPS with a warrior, they are just so goddamned gear dependent compared to other DPS classes I found it far too hard to actually gear up enough to raid as DPS.

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