Spiritual Guidance: Paying the hybrid tax
Every Wednesday, Fox Van Allen uses his dark, shadowy powers to take the reins of Spiritual Guidance, causing severe harm to others in the form of large, yellow five-digit numbers. Holy and disc brethren, alike — come join the dark side before his shadowfiend eats you. Fact: Priests are pretty much awesome. It’s because we’re versatile. We can DPS the living snot out of Lord Marrowgar in shadow, and then change to discipline so we can cover the raid in Power Word: Shields and Renews for Deathbringer Saurfang. Heck, we can even do both. We’re just that awesome. But awesomeness comes at a price, my friends, and that price is called the hybrid tax. It’s the term commonly used to explain why our DPS is designed to lag behind that of mages, warlocks, hunters, and rogues — the pure DPS classes. If you’re a jack of all trades, you’re supposed to be a master of none. (It’s cool though, they need the handout. It really sucks not being a Priest.) We can be forgiven, though, for looking at Recount or a World of Logs parse and thinking that whatever the hybrid tax is, it’s just way too high. But is it really? Are we finally doing
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