“Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where’s the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?

Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need

I need a hero
I’m holding out for at hero ’till the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight

I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero ’till the morning light
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life
Larger than life”

~Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero

Today is Tank Appreciation Day, folks!

If you’ve found a good tank, shower him (or her) with flowers, hugs, cookies, and chocolates.

If you haven’t found a good tank, ask yourself why. Do you, as a healer, need to become better? Does your tank not really understand what shields are for? If you have any kind of tank at all, and he’s willing to learn, both of you work together. Read each other’s class forums. Spend some time getting to know each other. Work your strategies around what you BOTH need, and then go practice. Being a good healer is difficult, and being a good tank is difficult. Being a spectactular tank or healer requires someone of the other class that you know well and that you’ve developed a rapport with.

If you’re a good healer looking for a good tank, go post on your realm forums on the official WoW site - I promise you’ll get plenty of invitations. Be picky. Both healers and tanks are the scarcest classes in the game. Well-played versions of either deserve to be coddled and loved. But it’s not all peaches and roses, you have to work for it.

It’s worth it though. It’s worth every wipe, every mis-timed heal, every failed taunt. Because once you work the kinks out of the relationship between tank and healer, you are INVINCIBLE.

Cherish your tanks, priests. Tell them every day how much you love them, because without them you’re just an oblong stain on the floor.

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