Mar 01 2007
Tigole on Hybrids
From my original post on the druid forums:
Recently some questions were posted on the general forums that were answered by Tigole. Thread here. Of particular note are questions 5 and 6 regarding the role of hybrids:
5) Healers. 40 mans seemed to be designed around something like 35% healers. Scaling that to 25 mans means 8 healers. R&J in Kara seems to require at least 3 main healers + 1 hybrid. The problem is very few people actually enjoy being healers. The prayer of mending nerf is just salt in the wound. It is very hard to find enough healers - I’d love to see 25 man content tuned for 6 dedicated healers and maybe 2 hybrids healing on healing intensive fights.
6) Tanks. We were planning on bringing 3 warriors and 3 druids to raids - 2 prot tanks, 1 fury, 1 feral tank, 1 cat, 1 resto druid. The Druid tanking nerf is extreme - I think it basically makes bears worthless against bleed immune mobs (all of Karazhan and likely much more), and their mitigation/HP worse than warriors, especially once T4/T5 becomes common and bears are still in quest greens. This means we’ll bring 3 prot tanks, 1 cat, and 1 resto. Maybe a pally OT. As a guild leader I really like the option of having more than one class be a viable MT, but with the druid nerf and warrior buff I don’t think I can justify anything but warrior tanks.
Tigole’s response to questions 5 and 6:
I don’t really agree with points 5 and 6 but I do feel like your previous points all had merit. Hopefully, the changes I mentioned will alleviate some of your worries.
What do you think? Looks to me like a shocking dismissal of the concerns of hybrids, as if it is intended that hybrids have no role in 25 man raid but to be full time healers.