Originally Posted by
Youn
The issue with support classes in WoW can be seen in Black Temple. For instance, mages proved absolutely useful for making your way through trash but were hard to keep alive on Bloodboil. So, solution, take a couple of extra mages to work your way through the trash then sit them for the boss.
Boomkins were nice to have unless you were on a progression boss. Easy fix, carry a boomkin on the roster and sit them whenever a progression boss was being worked on as they were 30% less damage.
Shadow priests and ret paladins both returned mana. Ret paladins unless they had massive haste were pure crap dps as they did most of their damage white swinging. Solution, bring in a paladin on farm nights and use the single shadow priest on most other nights. Once, your ret paladin wasn't totally useless you can bring them in on progression nights also. Always prioritize gear away from the paladin until you have no place to put it.
So, does that sound fun? Being the guy that sits on the bench until basically you cannot put another warlock into the raid? Or people didn't show up for the evening?