02-08-2009, 07:49 AM
Quote:This is a people issue, not a class issue. If you raid with people who would dump you just because you're not the right class, then I guess that's something you have to deal with. I'm not too worried about that happening to me where I raid, on either Alliance or Horde. You can't blame that on a class.
It's just like the guilds out there that still insist that a warrior must be MT. That's old, outmoded thinking. If a person sticks with a guild that thinks this way. or would kick 'pures' for hybrids, they have only themselves to blame.
That's a little bit of a strawman - it's not an issue of KICKING from a guild for hybrids, although we've been talking about that a lot. I know I might've started it off by talking about rearranging the comp within one raid, but let's consider another situation.
A longtime raider retires, and you're left with a spot to fill, what are you going to recruit? Say for the sake of an argument it was a warlock/mage that left. Now, not knowing what the next tier of raiding holds in terms of healer/dps mix, would you not take something that can do both... e.g. a boomkin or elemental shammy? First page of EJ, for example:
"We are recruiting, in order of need: one Death Knight, one Restoration Druid (who also can spec/play Balance), and one Holy Paladin (who also can spec/play either Ret or Prot, preferably Ret)."
Is specifying that you have to be multitalented something we would have seen before wrath? I sincerely doubt it.
Now, the sky is not falling. Skill > class, all that jazz, blahblahblah if you're in a guild like that you're better off elsewhere. But it happens - it always does. Do pure classes have a right to be concerned? Perhaps. I can sympathize and see where they're coming from, and it may be something blizzard should look at closely.