Stuck as a Tank

(This post is a part of several posts I am taking off old content to share on my new blog, so the content might be outdated.  LFG system has changed a lot since LK days...)

Help, I'm tanking and I can't get up!

And now my friends the time has come to talk of other things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax. Of cabbages and kings.

My tank is in need of a vacation.





She is tired of tanking things for everyone 'because it's easier'. It is easier to run through things in raid gear and never lose one ounce of health and make healers fall asleep from boredom. But I am needing my own healing fix right now. My priest is kinda special. I like standing in fire and pulling mobs on accident with her.

I get super focused on wanding mobs and forget to throw heals on my tank. I will admit, it's scary being in my group when I am in charge of your health. Because I am used to pally wings now more than priest ones!


But I am lately really wanting a non-hard-backed-book off-hand. I have pugged lots of raids (since our guild doesn't do alt raids) and I always lose out on good offhands. Even when she was my main and I raided full-time on her, I was never lucky enough to win even a Naxx 10 OFFHAND so she is stuck with the badge vendor one.

I have been begging my friends to run me through since I run lots of people through things on my tank, but I am finding one problem-I am the tank.


While I can tank H:HoR with my eyes closed and it's easy and I make everyone's job easy, not every tank can do that. I am just getting sick of seeing one scenery all the time.


My friends are scared to tank it and the one that would tank it needs major dps to help us get through it so we rely on guildies to be there to make sure the run is smooth. So I am finding out that it's easy to run people through things to get gear...but when I need it, no one can help me.

I can't solo it on my priest. I tried.

And waiting for groups can take forever-sorry dps, I am used to tank queues so healer queues make me QQ. AND when I get in a group half the time the tank freaks and leaves. :(

I am just so stuck checking the tank box that I feel if I want to click the healing box some flyswatter of the beyond is going to come down and smack me back into place.



Anyone else feel trapped in a role? I guess I am really sad that no one else has a geared (confident) tank to help out my alts like I can help theirs. ><

P.S. I don't stand in fire, that was a joke just because I needed a laugh. I am a great healer and would love a great group that would offer to help me run HoR everyday to help me get something that has been eluding me in raiding! I am so embarrassed of that stupid badge book.