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twixt said:
You should try it out sometime. I've tanked as a druid in BC and as a DK in Wrath. Out of all the roles - healing, dps, tanking, i found tanking the most satisfying from a high-stress high-enjoyment standpoint. You get your thrills from tanking for the same reason you might enjoy skydiving or bungee jumping. One mistake and boom, you and everyone else dies. And a well geared and well played tank commands respect, and is a resource always in demand. The tank is the lynchpin. The tank is THE man. It can be pretty cool to be THE man.
Off tanks usually need to tank many mobs at once more often than MT, which makes it more fun. Also you can be the hero when MT dies by picking up boss. If that doesnt save the day, then you arnt considered the failure because everyone more or less gave up when MT died anyway.
Just so I get more game time.. but for some reason.. my guild has too many tanks.
Prefer the off-tank role. Requires a lot of situational awareness to pick up adds spawning, save some nab mage etc.
The only thing about tanking is that your gear always has to be topnotch. The best gem, enchant etc. No second rate stuff. While as dps, for a raid or 2 you can have that crappy gem to fill the slot while you grind out more cash.
Im still gearing so only manage about 32k HP but def is standing at the non-crittable 540 barrier. I've MT'ed some HC's and have to say, I can't see playing anything else much. I'm just having too much fun, except when you get some idiot in a pug that keeps pulling aggro and blames the tank for not holding. 
(I just tend to slack in pulling the aggro off them when they start getting whiney. Much more fun for everyone else when their dead. )That's never going to happen. The mana price at 4 stacks is just way, way too much. No matter what gear you get, you'll never have enough mana regen (you shouldnt ever be stacking mp5 or spirit anyway) and mana pool to just spam AB. The point of AB spam is that for short periods of burst, sure, you can unload for a couple seconds to maybe burn down a mob quickly. But for long sustained dps, you *have* to drop that stack as soon as you 4x. Maybe with the sickest of gear you could put out a 5th or 6th AB before dumping, but unless you want to plow through your mana in 30 seconds and then sit the rest of the fight wanding, that's probably just not a good idea.
