“Without question a very good and very geared BM hunter can pull their weight in raids. …With good enough gear and enough skill, a BM hunter can pass any metric required of normal ICC.
However it is also without question that BM is also doing considerably less DPS than other specs, and they’re doing less DPS by choice. … Raiding is a team sport. It’s not just about carrying your minimum DPS mark, it’s about doing everything you can to help the team.” –Scattered Shots
You know what’s also important in a game? Having fun.
You know what’s also important in a team sport? Morale. My personal morale-and thus, indirectly, the morale of those who have to deal with me-is much higher when I play BM because BM makes me happy. Having a Devilsaur pet is silly. Having a cat that moonfires makes people giggle.
I play BM because I love it more than I love being on top of the meters. My guild wants me to play BM because they want me to go “NOOOO, OMNOMNOM!!!!!” over vent when my Devilsaur dies so they can LOL at me. I like LOLing and even being LOL’d at.
I don’t play this game to top meters, I play it to accomplish boss kills with my friends. In the name of different strokes for different folks, BM is more than adequate.
“Without question a very good and very geared BM hunter can pull their weight in raids.”
“Without question a very good and very geared BM hunter can pull their weight in raids.”
“Without question a very good and very geared BM hunter can pull their weight in raids.”
So shut the hell up already and go back to your epeening.
(Actually, I’d like to strike out that “very geared” part. Geared, yes, but this implies (at least, to me) that a level of being overgeared is required. If you look back at my previous post you’ll see my hunter sitting comfortably at 5k on the meters-in her first full 25 man. If my haphazardly geared alt in 10 man gear can do that, then I don’t think one needs to be “very geared” in order to hit the DPS minimums for ICC.)
RAWR Red Pet 