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Alex C:
I've been in 5 raiding guilds in various games and in 3 out of 5 the guild leaders were married couples who played a tank and a healer and the other two cases it was a tank+healer combo who happened to be roommates. It makes sense really; if you're going to pair up in an MMORPGer then you may as well go for the most codepedent (but potentially most rewarding) combo in the game. Tanks tend to end up with a leadership role simply because they can't really help but learn how pulls and patrols go whereas a lot of other classes can often get away with just following his lead. The good players will learn how things go anyway, of course, but as long as aggro management is so important people will continue to defer to tanks when in doubt.

Anyway, I've never really had a problem with a tank. Some tanks get a li'l full of themselves, but I've never noticed it happen more often than with any other role. If I have a beef with any type of character, it's with healers, actually. A lot of them don't seem to feel any particular need to know anything about the instance or do much other than waddle around and make a half-hearted attempt to stay within casting range of the party. My guild was chock full of crappy healers who would happily disparage the dps classes despite the fact that we had to cover for them constantly by dealing stupidly high amounts of damage in a desperate attempt to minimize the amount of time we had to depend on their sorry butts. The funniest part was a couple of really high end guilds started raiding us for healers only to kick them out almost immediately when it turned out they sucked.

Lines:
It just really depends on the person playing the character. Since I'm a druid and am building sets for everything, I don't mind healing an instance that my gear can handle. (I've got a balance druid.) The only thing I really refuse to do is heal hunter pets. Hunters have the ability to heal their own pets and I'm not going to waste my time if the tank is taking lots of damage. I've had several hunters get pissy about this, but I don't think all hunters are whiny, annoying, and don't know crap about cc. (Yes, multi-shot the freeze traps why don't you?) The former GM of my guild is a pretty damn good hunter, so I know not all hunters can be idiots.

But since I have a pretty good DPS druid and am bored with spending massive amounts of gold to respec, I'm building up a tank and a healer now, because waiting around for a tank on Feathermoon is killer. Maybe because it's an older server, so all the tanks that have been around are raiding endgame stuff or taking a break until Wrath, but it's silly.

20 jazz funk greats:
k, low level hunters aren't that great at healing their pets.
so it's nice to get a bit of help with that occasionally!

Leinad:
Low level hunters should not really need to heal their pets, TBH, because instances are not supremely difficult at that level. Once in Outland they can heal their pets fine and is the only time they might need help to do so.

est:
Started playing this again the other day.  I am currently at level 54 on my new Warrior named Hadron.  I doubt any of you are on the Oceania server Dath'Remar, but if you are then gimme a message/in-game mail.

Trivia! I picked the name "Hadron" because it sounded Dorfish and also because a Hadron is a small particle that reacts strongly with other particles.  Sounded like a cool description of my Dwarf Warrior, so I went with it.  Later I told Han about my Dorf's name and she almost immediately laughed and said "ha ha, Hard-on."  So yeah, now I can't help reading the name as "Hardon" in whois lists and so forth.  Currrrseeeeessssss!

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