Lilpenny

For sure 2-3 different points are being brought up here.

My current guild is a 98% continuation of a successful guild. We where 3/5 1/9 when leadership took different directions and I was charged with the task of moving the guild forward. Through issues beyond my control I lost my level 70 fully geared t5 content rogue and was looking for what the raid really needed from a min/max standpoint moving forward. We had zero Ret pallys and having played a mele class well and successfully it just made sense.

The power level took about 7-8 days of good dedication by myself to just be online and by 3-5 guildies to just come kill. It was right before the attunements where lifted from BT and Hyjal so my toon was carried through the attunements from a DPS standpoint being lacking. But the great thing about the hybrid reroll is that you are still adding to the raid just by being there. Even if your only rocking 5-700 DPS as a hybrid reroll for a raid synergy purpose your are still buffing the crap out of your raid.

Possibly the most scary thing I have done in WoW is accept the roll of GM as a Blue geared freshly 70 LAWL ret pally and then be sitting here today scrutinizing our raid comp for Brutallus. Its a success story for sure, but I will emphisize the same point many others have here. There is alot of just dumb luck involved but for as much dumb luck there is also hard work by not just you at times but others as well.

I guess to sum it up its completely possible and even at times more viable to have a trusted member who you know is gonna stay and attend to re roll a class that your raid desperately needs than to recruit some random dude who is fully geared to the level of content that you are and just gives you the reason of "see the game", and not I suck and haven't been able to do this yet cause I'm bad at my class. Not to say that we haven't been totaly lucky in this area. Simply our best resto shaman is a re roll as well. Again a "buff" class for sure so raid viability isn't a massive issue.