Originally Posted by
Cookie
Excuse me, but is this list a joke? You can't possibly be so ignorant that you include symbiosis tranq but not things like banners, right? So hybrids should be lower because you think "that's how it should be"? Blizzard has stated that there is no hybridtax anymore, and while doing that they have also given most pures significantly more utility (which previously was the advantage hybrids had, at the cost of dps, this advantage doesn't exist anymore).
I'll help out your "utility" list (I'll simply list what they bring over other classes, excluding the dps itself, which according to you would be the pures only advantage). Obviously not including buffs/time warp since several classes can bring that.
SP: Raidhealing, mana hymn, ranged and multidots.
Mages: Amazing survivability, amazing mobility, amazing burst, ranged and ok "cleave".
Warlocks: Portal, health stones, full dps while moving, solid burst, ranged and multidotting.
Rogues: Tricks (minor raid damage buff), amazing survivability, amazing mobility, full dps while moving, solid burst, amazing cleave, and in 5.2 a raidcd (smoke bomb).
Warriors: Two raidwide emergency buttons (Rallying cry+demoralizing banner), a raidwide damage buff (skull banner), amazing burst, full dps while moving, cleave, amazing mobility.
Sorry, I don't see how a SP brings more utility than a warrior right now, at all. I just see that we bring way less damage.