Hi,
I am playing a ret paladin as my main and trying to decide my offspec, I was thinking I wanted a role that is different from dps-ing and healing seemed that, much more than tanking. I also asked in these forums who gets fastest LFR queues and was told healers.
However, while trying to decide between both roles which I am genuinely interested in, I found a lot of people saying jokingly "chicks dig tanks" which seemed like a funny and harmless statement. However, while I searched I found wow wiki and the:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Choosing_a_class
page.
The final sentence in the article about the the healer grabbed my attention:
"It is possible for a healer to derive most of
her XP from dungeons, as opposed to PvE"
Assuming all healers are female!!!
I mean one of the reasons I am inclining towards a healer is that I was mostly tanking during wrath and was only healing during cataclysm and I found out that when I was healing I was much more in control of the raid compared to tanking. To me when tanking you are standing in the face of the boss, maintaining your aggro while in healing you are standing behind, looking at the whole raid, and its easier for you to navigate things and let someone know when he/she is making a mistake. That's much like a general in irl if you ask me. Also once you know the mechanics of a fight tanking is pretty much the same imho, while healing is much more reactive (dynamic) and you must correct every mistake a dps, tank or another healer makes.
So, imho healers jobs are as much manly compared to tanks if not even more.
What do you guys think?
PS: Not that I care too much about other peoples opinion, but I am social enough to still care to some extent...