Guilds: Sorry we don’t allow shadow, elemental, enhance, balance or feral
PVP: How dare you not play resto, holy or disc!!! you’re useless!!!
Doesn’t seem like a dichotomy at all
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Way back in the day with Vanilla, I played Balance druid as my first class. It wasn’t until AQ that the guild I was in let me actually play Balance. Even then I had to always be on my toes for key supports like decurse or battle rez, which is fine. But I definitely realized it’s going to be next to impossible to keep up with the purity of mage dps.
Regarding pvp, the other day in Warsong I noticed something hitting me kinda hard in Horde tunnel, and it was an elemental shaman casting away. I just sidestepped to outside the tunnel and we danced for a little while before he gave up. Those three second cast times for things are just tough man. When I pvp’ed on druid I had to play the game of hiding and letting others engage before nuking with Starfire because it is so easy to shut down.
Anyway, it’s really more of a hybrid tax. And those pure dps classes get a more powerful toolkit, plus a lot more instant cast abilities that can hurt. On Balance druid I only ever saw the scales balanced when they introduced Solar Beam. And on that day many mages cried.
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Just do a gkdp and roll however you want
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yeah there’s no contradiction there OP 
people expect hybrids to heal. if all you wanna do is damage, there is a wide variety of dps classes to choose from.
The only spec that is truly crippled in pvp is Enhance, everything else is actually very good assuming you know you’re dependent on certain factors and use of consumes… Almost like every other class spec.
As for raid, its not a big deal to bring any spec assuming everyone knows the fights and plays smart.
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Nah, if you want a pocket healer then bring one of your friends along. This is an mmo, you can’t control what other players choose to play.
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The only thing that bugs me in PvP are people who AFK, and or dont want to use their class kit in full despite their class build choose.
Example, warriors who will not pummel, hamstring, mortal strike or fear, Spriests, Ret paladins, enhancement, elemental, balance who refuse to also use hybrid kit components like dispel mechanics, roots, snares, CC mechanics, and even light healing.
It doesn’t bother at all what class or spec is in BG, but the team who wins is generally the plays best and uses their class kits to the best of their ability, but not only this but also consumable’s helps greatly.
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I mean I see tons of mega geared enh shamans on this server and Boomkins with rovp/toep etc lol. This server got hella meme specs raiding
Shadow is legit worthless in av. It’s actually just ineffective in any large scale environment so I’m not sure why there’s 5 shadow priests in every av.
It’s kinda the same reason even ele is weaker than other BGs. You can’t peel graveyards and u have no aoe and there’s no point to dpsing vann instead of healing the browns. Same reason mind blasting vann and putting up swp just yields no noticeable value at all compared to just healin lol
dying to healing aggro every van because warriors don’t want to press taunt is the reason I stopped healing AV to begin with
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