A good arguments for letting tankers lead is that if we run into something nasty, there's a good chance we survive. Say the team leader is a blaster and runs straight into a group with bosses. Not that good. Tankers run first, for safty reasons.
Now, tonight I had a great tanker experience. We were fighting counsil vampyrs, seven or eight people. I think I was the only tanker, though there was a warshade. Anyways, I was motivated by reading this and other posts beforehand, so I taunted, ran around, hit and switched targets, and did all I could to tank as best I could(a little hampered by the occational lag, but it didn't hit on crucial times).
I think no one were defeated in the whole mission. In the middle of the thing, I got compliments. My tanking didn't go unnoticed. It was great.
Off course, the whole team was great. The next mission we did had level 30 bosses(Totems), purple for all of us, I think. I think two people were defeated in it, though I may have missed some. Only twice was I really about to be defeated, and the healed saved me one of those times.
It was a great team and great teamwork and just great.
It's good to be a tanker when you tank good.