February News/Discussion

[Kevin]

Yet even during that period we had a shaman offtank for MC, Ony & BWL, and two Enhancement who to the best of my knowledge never even threw a chain heal. /shrug

It's a people thing. Superior players put out superior dps, even in 'crappy' specs.

~FragB)

Yeah I'm aware, I actually raided as beast for early MC as well (back when even EJ said you couldn't use pets in MC which was so wrong it's not even funny and back when a lot of people still didn't understand the value of hit or the aimed shot cycles) and topped damage meters, not just hunters, but everyone in the raid (of course at that time my DPS was superior as beast than it was to marks or survival because of how gearing curves worked in vanilla WoW). I later changed to marks for a bit then to survival as my gear changed and I stuck with the higher DPS spec for what my gear had. But most of the time the spec I was playing, and topping damage meters with, was not the accepted top hunter DPS spec. I also remember out DPS'ing everyone in the supression room because I was that damn good with FD trap, used volley when I should and was awesome single target DPS. And I was not playing with scrubs. I also looked at reports from top guild and got to see that I would have out DPS'd mages and locks from top guilds in there too.

I agree that it's a people thing. My real point was that the issue only really exists for the very top end min/max guilds and even in those you can find a few exceptions to the rule. And that most of the playing population of WoW doesn't see it as a real issue. Hell right now as long as a spec is within about 300 DPS of another spec (given the same player behind the toon) I figure that it's pretty much viable.