WoW

[Ashe]

Shamans are buffers and sometimes tanks, so you could be that, although you'd only be able to play them as Horde until January, and I'm alliance so we couldn't play together. I like Shamans, but they've been nerfed so that everything beats them in PVP right now. And they have no late game. In January alliance will get Shammys too, but Paladins are already on alliance, and when horde get pallies, they'll stop using shammies b/c pallies can wear plate and shammies only mail.

I'd recommend Paladin for you, they are also one of the "good" classes post patch right now. When attacked on a pvp server, they can "bubble-hearth" which is this spell that removes all debuffs on them and makes them immune for a certain length of time, then they can use their hearthstone to "get the hell out of there" to keep from lame camps and stuff. Nifty for them.

Additionally, just like Warlocks, you won't have to actually get the large amount of gold (for a starting character) to get your lvl 40 original mount, but instead can quest for it. By Quest, I mean you will go talk to someguy and he'll be like "wtf u pwn?" and you be like "omg xtreme" and he goes "oshit beer" and the two of you go dancing in a field of flowers before you get your mount. Mine is a flaming horse, yours would just be some golden armored horse. But our mounts are FREE at 40. We do quest for our 60's too, which others have to pay alot, but I don't know about you but my 60 mount quest is a bit difficult and still expensive for the mats used for it.

In general, thinking over it... I think Pally is a good start for you, given the range of abilities, the fact that you can buff people, and the fact that you'll always be needed for groups while having fantastic end game for raids and still great pvp (although not the gods of pvp that warlocks, rogues, and hunters seem to be) and you can wear PLATE. You'll be a bit expensive on the gear repair costs like any tank would, but you can either tank or heal, and always buff. I have a small lvl 4/5 Pally I've played around with on a friend's server (named her Givememoney) just to talk to him when I'm bored. Some human female I usually leave dancing naked on a mailbox while I'm talking to him. With a big warhammer.

I can continue on others though if you want.