But I Haven't Forgotten

I've recently started raiding on my rogue. And I've been getting questions because of it. "No aaesop?"
Yeah no Aaesop right now. I needed a break from it, at first I felt that I hadn't raided because I simply didn't feel in tune with the guilds I had went to, later I felt that I had simply raided on Aaesop in the later days because of the social aspect.
After a bit of raiding with my rogue I've realized a few things.
I still love tanking, very much so. I haven't hung that character up for good. The boss fights simply aren't engaging to me right now. Deathwhisper is a big example of that. For the most part it's what I had done primarily all through BC. Round up adds, and bark at people to kill which ones. Alot of boss fights are simple ones just like that, with a debuff that I would have no concern about. The ship battle is exempt, I found that it was entirely entertaining and something that blizzard should think about again when they make their next raid. All to often a raid consists of mind numbing grinds. However that fight was a fresh breath that was more than welcoming.
Saurfang himself proves to be an interesting fight, albeit a smart check with stress put on the healers depending on your group make up.

I realized that alot of fights just don't do it or me. I frequently quote Mother Shahraz etc as a fight that mattered alot to me. It took alot more thinking! Illidan as well, no matter if you were tanking Illidan himself or the adds, you really had work to do. I simply don't have that feeling about the bosses in WOTLK.

BUT! I haven't forgotten how to tank, what's important to tanking or the tricks involved with it. I'm still giving out alot of advice to people about paladin tanking and its comforting. I still have the confidence that I could if needed appears in a raid on my paladin and walk into a fight perfectly.

For the most part things between the shield bearing tanks has been leveled as far as the playing field goes. Blizzard had really stepped their game up as far as that goes. There's always going to be small niche things that won't change, and while many would argue and plead for them to get changed, I for one hope they don't. Lowering the limitations of a class kills creativity, or perhaps a sense of accomplishment. To know that I tanked Kael'Thas in TK as a paladin succesfully isn't something very many paladins could ever proclaim, as it was a fight that very much so favored warriors. No shield wall back then made it a fight that required alot of creativity to negotiate.
You really don't need those levels of creativity anymore simply put. This is another thing that steered me away from my tank. I don't have to use those same tactics or think up something off the wall like I did for Mag,KT, Reliquary of Souls. I'm trying to think up some fight that really required that amount of thinking and planning in this current expansion but I really can't find anything that would qualify.

Hopefully cataclysm brings that back to the fold, or something before then, at that point if plausable I might think about tanking again actively. But for now, I'm playing the pvp character I was always not wanting to love despite myself.
Which in itself is an amazing thing, I wouldn't believe that an alt of mine would be cracking the 7k dps mark. But as proven last night, it happened.

I guess we just wait and see what happens from here out.