Wow Paradise and powerlevel practice

Wrath of the Lich King brings us new chances for fun, thrilling, original ideas and concepts... And as such, I pitch an old idea of mine that is always a hit with the lovers of living corpses:

ABOMINATION PETS, 2008!!!

Submitted for your approval, a screen shot of a GM agreeing that Abomination pets would rock our pants off. I used to have others, but after a computer upgrade with a hard-drive replacement, I foolishly lost them:

Do we need tanks?

Blizzard says we do, and it's an old standard of the MMO genre that someone stands up front and annoys the monster into hitting him, so that healing can be concentrated and DPS doesn't have to take a beating that would likely kill it. But do we really need tanks, or should the game move away from emphasis on the tanking/DPS/healing troika?

So I was leveling on an alt in the Wetlands, when I saw another lowbie accompanied by a lvl 70 Paladin. I noticed he had Blessing of Sanctuary up, so as I usually do when I run into fellow Prot. Paladins, I inspected him, and was greeted with this:

Me: Why on earth don't you have Avenger's Shield or Improved Holy Shield? :|
Him: im poor

Me: That's no excuse... go do some quests in outlands
Him: ill get right on that
Him: doctor wow

Me: As someone who's had a prot pally since before we had a taunt, it upsets me to see someone without those two talents

(This is indeed true. I still have my full Deathbone set in the bank.)

Him: It's just a game, relaxxx
Me: Football is just a game, but if a team were only playing with 7 players...
Him: to deep for me

I stop talking to him at this point. Personally, I think the analogy I was trying to draw there was pretty straightforward.