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Originally Posted by Radiskull
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If you think those posts were complaints about him being a troll, you are mistaken. It was about the Shadow Knight part. The OP was about not being able to get a group on a hybrid. It was not about not being able to get a group as a troll. Trolls aren't being claimed to be avoided like the plague, hybrids are.
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I wasn't talking about the OP, and I specified who I was talking about. This guy:
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Originally Posted by Kriven
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I had a troll SK here, gave up in the mid 40's... due to the vast amount of LFG time (including running around/porting to different zones to shout lfg)...with many other hybrids around I think the main fear is having 2 hybrids in a group. I've grouped with a bard and ranger before and dear god, the pulls were great but the XP penalty was a killer.
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... who was talking about troll and shadowknight, not just shadowknight.
Anyways. I really think it comes down to is this. Hybrids gained utility and convenience that enabled them to function in a wider variety of situations than pure melees could. Someone decided that the price they had to pay for this was a 40% xp penalty.
Warriors and rogues pay their own price for their specialization and lack of an xp penalty in that they are not useful outside of groups. When a shadowknight who couldn't find a group was out fear kiting stuff for mediocre xp or a paladin was single-pulling undead in a dungeon or a ranger was kiting down stuff and tracking up a storm or a bard was killing an entire zone off... the warriors and rogues who couldn't find groups were sitting around doing nothing.
Where things went wrong was that some classes ended up being as desired as a warrior or a rogue in groups and also more capable of handling a variety of situations than hybrids, but they escaped without a stiff experience penalty.
And nothing is going to change any of this.