I've been in groups with tanks who can't hold aggro, healers who are too busy fighting adds to heal and enchanters whose mez never holds. I'd say that these were all good groups, just not fully optimised due to our low levels and beset by random wandering orcs; we're mostly talking Crushbone groups here.
In almost every single one of these groups, I had another rogue standing across from me as we played ping-pong with aggro. Yes, we often needed healing afterwards, but two rogues make for a lot of damage in a very short space of time no matter which direction the mob turns.
And very few classes can just sit down in the middle of a busy zone and /afk while trains run rampant all around. Two rogues can both hide (and know whether they are hidden) without needing to find a safe spot. They can sneak past mobs which are too tough to reach the softer targets, no need for invis and IVU.
When the party runs, I've been one of two characters left behind to finish the fight as duo more than once and it's always been a pair of rogues. It works out more often than you'd expect because I could usually hand off the mob to the other rogue via evasion and/or switching off auto-attack briefly when my health dipped too low.
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