Originally Posted by Roywyn
No, shadow immunity means immunity to VT/Misery/curses/shadow embrace. That means they run with no/one (for buffs/utility/whatever) mages, warlock, shadow priests, then no elemental shaman or moonkin (the classes that these hybrids are missing).
It'll just be tanks, healers and melee/hunter comps.
That's the whole point with shadow immunity.
No one cares about fire/nature/arcane immunity - immunities suck, but those three schools don't matter.
Holy - means no ret paladin, and if your MT is a paladin he'll enjoy his night off.
Frost - no one cares right now, but it might mean that your Deathknight main tank will level his fishing that night.
Shadow means that the lack of curses, misery, vampiric touch and shadow embrace will make a minmax raid to run a cleave comp without casters due to the lack of damage debuffs.
As a raid leader, I wouldn't care about sitting out an SP and having some locks respec.
I would care about having to sit 1/3 of my raid or more because they become subpar DPS compared to physical DPS.
(Loss of CoR is ~7% compared to 18% misery/CoE and another 5-10% from VT.)
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....and as I said it is inherently poor design if a high end Raid NEEDS Lock and Shadow Priest DeBuffs to be effective. No class should be required for any fight. This has been a cornerstone complaint of Mages throughout TBC. By your own statement you would never dream of a Raid without Locks or Shadow Priests but it's not a big deal of you don't have any Mages. Do you see how ridiculous that is?
Blizzard Buffed Locks/Spriests and Hunters so much for TBC to make up for their low numbers in the old 40 man world they created this imbalance.