I started tanking almost a decade ago, in Perfect World, long before I ever rolled a real tank class. It was about the time that I realized I enjoyed the thrill of holding everything down laughing as things tried, and failed, to kill me, that I realized I was a tank. My current class was not supposed to tank, being a pet class, but that didn't stop be from getting into the fray, and holding things down, using the abilities I had to force myself into the role of light tank. Way I figure, if they didn't want me to tank, they wouldn't have given me the opportunity to use my melee abilities to leech HP, and lower enemy accuracy. But I digress. That character, however, was the beginning. I enjoyed the thrill of being able to say "Come at me!" and take all those hits to the face. I eventually left that MMO, and started playing others, this time on an actual tank class, and haven't really looked back since. I play everything, sure, but my heart is truly in tanking.