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We raid with one or two. We always have one and he is an all-star that I'd put up against any spriest in the game.
We use him in a group with the mages (2 to 3) and ideally an elemental shaman. That group (G2, G1 being the MT group) is ideal soon (2 mages, 1 shaman, 1 spriest, 1 BM Hunter). Ah, but is it? No, not at all for the raid as a whole. It is however 'ideal' for keeping mages happy (and we need them for some fights and frankly, they tend to get pissy and leave without constant love) and it makes the BM hunter silly happy. The spriest in question already knows he's a lynchpin of the raid and the shaman comes and goes.
It is fun playing with new raid roles. All I can really say though is that spriests are sickeningly nice to have around and if all of them could perform at the level of our #1 version, that would indeed be imbalanced. The only annoying part is the moving of people (overhealing healers) for mana and the sad 'need' for mages to have a decent spriest for long fights. Hell, I'd take our resident top spriest just for his single-target dps alone.
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