Curse you, Resto!

Let me be clear.  This post isn't really a rant as much as just an observation about the situation.  I finally get the balls to go back to raid tanking...and I end up finding a nice cozy spot in a raid guild as one of two resto druids there.  Life's good for my druid right now.  That's for sure.

Last night, the guild I raid with decided that, since our 25 man raiding team was having attendance problems...we'd switch to 2 ten man teams.  Such changes are common in larger raid guilds.  People either don't like the inevitable lag that comes with 25man raiding or there are attendance issues that either hold the entire group up or prevent it from running at all.

When I originally joined this guild, I was recruited by a friend to tank for the guild's 3rd 10 man team.  I was pretty excited and spent a week grinding out gear from heroics and badges and even picked up a couple entry level crafted pieces.   I tanked for them one night only and we did pretty well, considering this was my first time tanking any Cata raids and it was really the second time the group had ever run together.  The following week we were informed that our individual 10 man teams were going to be dissolved into one 25 man team.

I was asked to dust off my resto gear and heal.  Not a big deal.  I've done the resto thing for two expansions now and I guess I don't MIND it.  Even when I'm healing I get to see bosses go down and check out sparkly new purples, right?

And as it turns out, I'm doing alright for healing on most fights.  

Except you, Atramedes.  Screw you.  Srsly.

Anyway, with our ten people grouped up, zoned in, and ready to go...one of our tanks disconnected.  He lost power at his house and couldn't get back on or something.  While we were sitting there twiddling our thumbs waiting, the friend that recruited me suggested that I tank.  

Our group leader simply replied with, "No."

No one asked again and we ended up grabbing one of the guild's other tanks as he logged in and off we went.  We took down Trons and Magmaw and then t was on to Maloriak.

The druid tank that was on the boss got frustrated with his lag issues and offered to step down, suggesting again that I tank the boss and he could go boomkin.

Again, his suggestion was met with, "no."

Being the curious little druid, I asked why.  I have some nice tanking gear now, that I got on off-spec rolls while healing.  10 man raid buffed I'm around 165k health, a decent amount of damage mitigation and I'm fluffy...so I was curious.

The answer was this:  We need healers and you were the top healer on that last fight.

Oh.

DAMN IT!

So the role I think I'm the worst at, I end up actually being decent at and it's keeping me from raid tanking, huh?  Bah...

I really don't mind, in truth.  It's hard to be insulted when someone says, "You're a good healer and I'd rather have you do that than tank for now."  Healing is also a bit more challenging in Cata than in Wrath.  And...I love the fact that I can occasionally sneak in and top the healing meters.  Makes me feel very RAWR!  

But...let's face facts.  There's just nothing more delicious than charging in and smacking the smug grin off of some raid boss.  Something a bit more rawr about it.

Despite being denied a run at tanking last night, I DID manage to get some new healing shoulders.  You know...the OBNOXIOUSLY HUGE ones with the blue feathers?  Yeah, those.  They aren't the tier shoulders, but they're better than what I had.  Now I at least LOOK like a raiding druid. 

Even if my shoulders are ridiculously huge.

PS:  If Atramedes insists on chasing me around all night with tracking beam nonsense, the least he could do is drop the resto helm for me...but nooooooooooooo....the jerk...