So, what class are you re rolling?

[Faildevil]

Yeah, it's a lottery. And with mage, rogue, lock and hunter you have three tickets, while priests have only one.
That and the fact that "historical", especialy mages seems to have a hidden buff called "developers darling".

[Deleted]

Yeah, it's a lottery. And with mage, rogue, lock and hunter you have three tickets, while priests have only one.
That and the fact that "historical", especialy mages seems to have a hidden buff called "developers darling".

Mages topping meters is part of the class fantasy.

[anon5123]

FIFY.

WOTLK ended the "hybrid tax".

No it didn't. Pures still did way more DPS than hybrids. You could not top meters as Spriest or Balance druid or Enh sham, unless the rest of your DPS were bad.

[ThrashMetalFtw]

pretty sure the only time shadow hasn't had a hybrid tax were patches 4.2 & 4.3.

I don't know why, but ppl seem to forget that Shadow was at its strongest in t11, not in t12 or t13. We started Cata extremely weak, then got buffed in 4.0.6 (like a month into Cata), became gods for 3 days, then got nerfed, but still remained borderline OP for the rest of t11. In t12, we were still the best caster overall, but Mages and Locks were much closer. In t13, we got outscaled quite hard by Fire Mages, Arms Warrs, Demo Locks, SV Hunters and Legendary Rogues. Sure, we were still gods of multidotting, but we were middle of the pack on singletarget, assuming equal skill and gear.

I do agree that Cata was the only time when Shadow didn't have any kind of "hybrid tax" though.