Meat shield...with spikes?

First off here is a little rant about stress!!! The real post is below that.

Stress is preceived as something unwanted and unneccesary. However, before I begin my rant about WoW I'd like to state how I feel about stress(at least the kind stemming from things your passionate about). The reason behind this paragraph being that I see a lot of people getting so stressed out about things they love to do and the end result being quitting all together. Being an artist I often experience the feeling of stress whenever a sketch doesn't come out exactly how I'd like it, or when the ceramic piece just happens to blow up into a million bits. In any case that stress is normal, and acts like the rising action within a novel. In this case the novel is life(what a big ass book) and the rising action is meant to make us anxious(and sometimes furious) about what is to come. So how in the hell does this relate to anything? Well in the passed couple months, before I took a much needed vacation, I was experiencing just this. Lets just say the chapters in my book consisted of too much 'rising action'. So here I am now about to return home from my vacation, to the place where stress seems to run rampant within the things I love as well as the things I strongly dislike. I would just like to remind myself that stress is just like anything else, if you think of it negatively then its impact will be just the same. However, if you think of stress as a sort of bump in the road, rather then a wall, then it's much easier to get around.

--Meat Shield with SPIKES! OUCH!--

Okay anyways! Something I love very much consists of swords, shiny plate, and crude jokes such as, "Cover for me! I gotta wiz behind a tree!" This would be gaming. More specifically WoW or World of Warcraft. Currently the captivator of millions of people world wide. Some social specialist in a fancy office may say that this is one of many addictions that hinder young people today, but how can I be sure he wasn't paid off by the Horde?

At any rate I love playing WoW and my love for it mainly stems from the fact that I'm an artist and after all WoW is full of pretty colors. That may not be the full reason, but it definitely helps! Being a tank in WoW is nothing easy, just the same as any other class out there, Im sure. And if I may say so it's an extremely rewarding class if accompanied with the right group of gamers coupled with the right classes. In addition Tanks seems to be in urgent need, and with the upcoming expansion the introduction of the Death Knight will possibly lessen that need.

However, as a Protection Warrior the integration of the Death Knight, which is said to be a sort of dps tank doesn't reflect to well with me. One of the many concerns I have is that the warrior class will be pushed the back of the bus so to speak. Specifically the Protection Warrior. After all if a Death Knight can tank as well as do decent damage then why not have 4 Death Knights fighting for aggro on a boss rather then a prot warrior who has minimal damage but takes damage very well? I also realize that some fights call for a prot warrior specifically, however I feel that people will find alternate ways around this.

I have some faith that Blizzard will try to maintain the balance between damage taking and damage making although I can just see the problem to come if they over look this issue. Protection Warriors are the meatshield of WoW, nothing more. If you introduce a meat shield with spikes whose going to need the former? Perhaps this is just me thinking of the worst case scenario, but I guess we wont know for sure until the The Wrath of the Lich King is realeased!