gr8 b8 m8, i r8 8/8
Unless you're trying to win Invitational, player skill will always trump the spec.
gr8 b8 m8, i r8 8/8
Unless you're trying to win Invitational, player skill will always trump the spec.
The only info you can actually have is try to check their Armory or what not. Their spec will tell you an exact, round, nothing.
...and frankly myself I stopped running over +10 since within the pure casual bracket I mostly play with friends and if not enough are on-line, we carry a random low-ilvl.
Honestly if you are just running a +10 it doesn't matter what you bring. I have completed +10's with whatever the affixes are with pretty much any comp you can imagine.
You typically have a few people roughly the same "skill" according to armory. So they you take the safest bet, it's easy to be good in m+ at most of the top specs, which happen to be faceroll, so you would take a warrior, or an mm hunter, over worse specs.
Because if you're assuming both people are equal skill, you take the spec that does more dmg, because you have a higher chance of them doing more damage than the other.
I try to have at least one big ST dps. Keep in mind even on tyrannical week you will spend most of your time fighting trash, not bosses, so AoE is still important.
Also, even if I try to make the perfect group on paper, there's always a player or 2 whose reason to exist is to remind me that bad players are everywhere and we don't really bring a spec.
When you lead a group, you drive a short bus.
Seems there should be a lot more factors than just ST dps, but obviously when it's your group you should invite whoever you want. I play an affliction lock and on a few occasions have saved the day after I saw the tank going down with a quick pet switch, taunt and run and tank brez. Enh shaman might be ahead of me on your ST damage list but he isn't going to do those things.
Personally I would factor in making sure I have BL, a brez and survivability in addition to ST damage. Above all that, I would only want to do higher keys with people I already know, which is the most important factor.
To humor your idea: yes, i would absolutely try to pick the best ST class if you hold everything else equal.
However, holding everything else equal isn't practical because it simply isn't the case, so I would rather look at their m+ "score" to decide whom im taking.