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Originally Posted by Byrjun
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One thing I'm noticing about vanilla WoW is that the more interesting a class is, the less viable it is. EQ sorta had the same problem.
If you don't fall squarely into a role of DPS, Tank, or Healer you might as well reroll, unless you only want to do nothing but PVP.
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The attitude towards hybrids in vanilla WoW from the dev team was pretty similar to the attitudes of the early EQ devs. Things got slightly better in TBC but hybrids still suffered a massive "hybrid tax" that would keep them behind pure DPS classes by 25-30% and with the smaller raid sizes that were introduced you would see almost no Hybrid DPS unless the spec brought something unique to the raid. WOTLK saw massive hybrid buffs but the DPS was still behind pure classes by 5-10%. It wasn't until Cata that almost all classes and specs were finally on a equal footing (barring bad class design).
PVP was the one place that hybrids could shine though as having more flexibility instead of being focused on one particular job could be a massive strength.