They are looking at the Shaman now

[Treesh]

In a raid situation, most of the time, i can sit there with four fingers on my keyboard, mashing lesser healing wave with the main tank targeted (and mana conserve on) and recasting totems when i hear the expiration notification sound with my other three fingers. I'm usually watching tv.

Then you aren't doing as much as you can to help the raid. If rogues can get in there and melee, so can you! On the bosses that can't be meleed, cast spells at them! If you're designated as a healer, you can melee and heal at the same time. There's a hell of a lot more to do in a raid that benefits the raid than you just sitting there watching tv instead.

Yes, and what raid guild trying to learn AQ is going to take shadow priests in place of holy priests? or feral druids? or non Restoration Shaman? Any priest wanting to maximize raid effectiveness is pretty much forced into some variation of 26/25, much like Druids are forced to Innervate and Shaman are forced to Mana Tide.

Any guild that wants to actually take down the bosses quickly and easily aren't going to force folks into one spec. It's wasteful to not take advantage of all the opportunities you have available to you. What do your holy or discipline priests do when they aren't required for healing all the time? How about having one of your shadow priests just DPS until they are needed? Same with the druids. You've got a feral druid? Let them DPS if they aren't needed for healing. Even on learning encounters, you don't need every healer healing at every moment of the raid. And shaman are forced to get Mana Tide? Really? Then why is every pickup group amazed to see a restoration shaman when I join them? And yes, these are groups that have some folks in MC and BWL and AQ40 too.

That's funny, because neither Druids nor Shamans nor Paladins are hybrids at the raid level.
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Complete bull. Pallies are kinda stuck without hybrids roles, but druids and shaman can still be hybrids in end-game raiding. We've had druid tanking in MC on some of the dog packs, we definitely have them DPSing whenever we can. There is very little healing needed on the trash mobs and even on some of the bosses so yeah, we squeeze every bit of utility out of the classes we have whenever we can. The last full clear of MC done was done in three hours time (time from first trash pull until looting of Ragnaros), in part because the healing classes are DPSing when they aren't needed to heal. Now, admittedly, it's still warriors tanking most of the time so not all of the utility of the hybrid classes are being used all the time, but more DPS is always welcome.