Does tanking carry more responsibility than most?

[WowSuchName]

My main is tank and recently start playing healer, I must say healing does really carry more responsibilities.

- If tank make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If healer make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If DPS make mistake(s), healer has to pick it up.....

After playing Tank, the enjoyment is you take full control of the situation such as pace, positioning and damage mit and etc.
But after playing healer, I felt that I take zero control of the situation my performance is base on how other people perform (you can't really be pro solo heal in team of bad players that die/raise every 30 secs). At most, I can do is top-up people HP as soon as possible and hope no one make silly mistake.

[inkuzen]

- If tank make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If healer make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If DPS make mistake(s), healer has to pick it up.....

This is true, I main Tank. For funzies I went around doing some healing and if you look away for a second its like "OH... the tank is dead... darn..." After trying a few other roles, I've gained a new appreciation for tanking. DPS I feel kind of bored and felt like I don't have enough control of what's going on, really wasn't sure I was doing much. As a Healer I got angry at DPS that ran around pulling things and tanks that didn't hold aggro enough then the moments of "He's dying, but I got... why is that guy dying now, oh great they're all dying... now I'm dead." But as a tank I feel much more at home.

Marking things, taking damage, trying to mitigate as efficiently as possible to take stress off the healer, pulling in the the things that I should be, making sure we're on the same page so I know what if I'm pulling adds or not on certain bosses. I like watching the area around us while keeping tabs on the enmity bars and positioning the mobs the best way possible. Tanking is awesome.

[saber_alter]

- If tank make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If healer make mistake, healer has to pick it up
- If DPS make mistake(s), healer has to pick it up.....

sure it's the healers job to make sure nothing unintentionally goes to hell...but the tank has the mobs attention...hmm...

*starts rotating AK boss*