Quote Originally Posted by foxHeart View Post
That's never been what hybrid has meant. Hybrid is any class that can perform more than one role. Hunters, mages, warlock, and rogues are the only pure (dps) classes.
Actually thats exactly what hybrid means. There has always been a "Hybrid Tax" (not just in WoW but in EQ and other games), on classes that can perform more than one role reasonably well simultaneously. The reason is that the "pure" classes cannot do anything other than damage or heal so should be compensated for that fact. Currently it is not possible to spec in such a manner that would allow a Holy pally to tank or a ret pally to heal. Therefore there is no such thing as a "hybrid". If you are ret you do damage, if you are Prot you tank, you can no longer do both at once at a slightly reduced level.