When the Asshole Tank isn't an Asshole Tank: Tanking is one of the game's more high-stress jobs, and the role tends to attract a lot of blame (fair or otherwise). Most players just tolerate the resulting abuse, because the trouble of kicking the Asshole Tank often isn't worth the wait you'll endure to replace her. For some people, the combination of power and lack of accountability is toxic. No matter how poorly they play or how many people they antagonize, the odds of suffering any serious consequences are small they'll still have a short wait, an endless supply of players on whom to inflict misery, and the knowledge that a group can't do anything without them. Tanks aren't as common as DPS and healers, and they usually enjoy fast queues in both the Dungeon Finder and LFR. So why does this happen? As the Drama Mamas once observed, there's a phenomenon in the game that we might call Tank Entitlement. A druid tank yelling at the healer in Scarlet Monastery because the latter couldn't keep him alive through four Scarlet Hall Guardians while stunned.A death knight tank insulting all the 'bads' for dying to adds he/she couldn't be bothered to pick up on Megaera trash.A paladin tank ignoring pleas from fresh 90s to kill a few extra mobs in Siege of Niuzao Temple so they could finish a dungeon quest.A ToT-geared monk harassing a mage in blues during a Scholomance PUG and threatening to kick him because 'You can't do half my DPS.'.A warrior tank pulling all of the trash in Iron Qon's room and then dropping group with a smiley in raid chat.

Here's a sample of the Asshole Tanks that my guildies and I have seen recently: We tanks would love to believe that all of our colleagues are good people with a deep sense of noblesse oblige on behalf of the playing public, but we know better.

Remember the Friendly But Easily Bored Tank from the first article? She has a counterpart with a less philanthrophic outlook on the world.

Wow thats a lot of damage