If raiding's your main priority in life--don't play a hybrid anything, play a specialist. Personally I have little interest in raids, and utterly zero interest in high-end raids, so the considerations are different for me.
I've been 60 on my Shadow Knight--my ONLY 60--for quite a few years. I'm well-satisfied with it and it gives excellent service for anything I can reasonably ask it to do. It can solo anything I care to. It makes an excellent duo partner with the wife's shaman (our primary mode of gameplay). It serves as an adequate tank for any and all groupable content we care to do, as well as the occasional lower-end raid. It serves well as a puller when needed, which is frequent and has considerable ability to sneak in and out of nearly anyplace. Overall it's an excellent character for doing the jobs I want to do...but I don't want to raid high-end things. I despise TOV. If I wanted to do that, I'd pick something else.
Non-defensive tanks and hybrid classes in general fare poorly in raids due to their fundamental nature. Raids like having specialists. With P1999's high-end culture it goes even farther and most the top guilds like people who have multiple available specialist characters rather than those who try to devote themselves to a single one. Pick a class that suits the jobs you want to do, and don't try to fit a round peg into a square hole.
Danth
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