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Tax Reform

— rawrcast.com — A recent post by Ghostcrawler on the forums caught my interest. It discussed the difference between “Pure”... classes and “Hybrid” classes. GC stated that it is the policy of Blizzard to enforce a “Hybrid Tax” on players that play hybrid classes. This tax ... (more) Tax Reform

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Ghostcrawler and the "hybrid tax"
WoW.com — Ghostcrawler has put a significant sticky up on the forums about what he calls the "hybrid tax" in terms of PvE play -- there's been some back and forth lately on the forums about hybrid classes and what they should and shouldn't be able to do, and GC wants to put any confusion about what Blizzard intends "hybrids" to be to ...

General All tanks are hybrids.
TankSpot — I stumbled on a post by Ghostcrawler. World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> "Hybrid tax" I have long resented the way people speak of hybrids because I don't feel hybrid at all. If I spec tank I tank and if I spec dps I dps. The talentbuilds for characters in WoW are just too specialized to speak of hybrids in my opinion. ...

On Behalf of All Hybrids; How many taxes do we have to pay?
Rawrbitchrawr — I completely read GC’s sticky on hybrids, and though I respect the analysis, I have to say it’s slightly incongruous with the current state of WoW.  If we are discussing Wrath WoW exclusively, and he was, then we need to discuss the hybrid tax already built into game mechanics. The Pre-Pull Tax This ...

Tax Reform
Rawrbitchrawr — A recent post by Ghostcrawler on the forums caught my interest. It discussed the difference between “Pure” classes and “Hybrid” classes. GC stated that it is the policy of Blizzard to enforce a “Hybrid Tax” on players that play hybrid classes.  This tax means that if you had a Shaman and a ...

The Hybrid Tax - Are Hybrids Meant to Only Heal and Tank?
Altosis — Ghostcrawler speaks of the "Hybrid Tax" in this post. It's an interesting concept and not every surprising if you have spent any length of time objectively pondering game balance. In a nutshell, if pure DPS classes don't have the capacity to do more damage than hybrid classes, then folks would be more likely to abandon pure classes to take up hybrid classes so they could have their cake and eat it too. That all sounds very reasonable, but it is interesting to ponder the converse...hybrids abandoning DPS roles because they want to be excel at what they do and have no desire to have a hard cap on their ability to excel with respect to their ...

Pigeon Holes, Pandora’s Box, and Paladins
Rawrbitchrawr — A long time ago, in a realm far, far away before the kinky psychedelic world of Outland or the Gothic S&M feel of Northrend, there was a place known as Vanilla.  Back in those days, a paladin was balanced around his ability to heal.  More specifically, he was balanced around his ability to heal and to heal as equally as ...

WoWWatch: Keeping it simple.
Lagwar | The Enthusiast Press — I used to raid with a priest.  Real raiding, not the casual stuff, the kind that causes you to forfeit your social life, the hard-core kind.  I was a straight healer, this was back in the so-called “vanilla” WoW time, so healer was the only raid viable spec for a priest at the time.  And times were good, priests healed, warriors tanked, warlocks, rogues, hunters, and mages dpsed.  But then there were those pesky hybrid classes.  The druids, the shaman, and the paladins, what did they do?  Well originally not much of anything, at least not too well.  Druids were primarily spot healers and niche dps.  With lots of hots druids could move a little better than priests ...