Originally Posted by
Allarius
Uh, I raid lead my guild which would probably fall under your criteria of normal mode/slow heroic profession and I absolutely expect my raiders to perfect their professions. Whether it's a noticeable upgrade or not is immaterial, because the point is not really the actual dps upgrade, rather the commitment to excelling at their role.
Just because there are more important factors doesn't belittle this. It's very easy for someone to grasp all of these "important" factors and there's no legitimate reason for not doing it besides being lazy. Especially if it's a new recruit, it's the little things you need to look for and understand why they did that to help determine if they're a good candidate. With that being said, I'm not about to remove someone from a raid just they may have skinning instead of BS or JC, but it's my job as raid leader to try to make the raid as good as possible. I try to strongly advise my raiders to better their characters in any way possible, but I'm not forcing it down their throats because we're not a world first guild.
It also opens a slippery slope though. Why get professions, it's only like 300 stat. Why bother enchanting my gloves, it's a useless enchant anyway. By themselves none of them amount to any significant change, however when combined it's a noticeable difference.