Yes it is.

Ultimately it depends on what you want out of the game and your guild. When I ran a guild I was also caught up in attendance, class mix, progression and all that crap. Now, over half a year later I am still in daily contact with many of the core members of my old guild. We have our own chat channel, which is way more active than my current guild's channel.

That kind of changed my perspective on things like loot preferences for certain classes or main switching. Games come and go. Loot comes and goes. Progression comes and goes, especially with the promised annual expansions regularly flushing your current gear down the drain.

Of course if your goal is hardcore progression then things change. But unless you are on the forefront of raiding overly strict policies make no sense to me.

Kalman is on the forefront of raiding. So is my guild. Well, maybe forefront is a bit much, but we're certainly 9 bosses deep in Naxxramas. I think Kalman's guild is a couple bosses ahead of us. KT was killed a couple months back, so we might not be bleeding edge, but we're pretty far ahead of everyone else on our server.

I have lots of good relationships built up in game, even so, but there is the good of the guild, and the good of the individual to weigh. Both matter. All my other friends who are tired of wiping on Thaddius say that an undergeared mage is not our needed solution. Which friend do you favor?

I personally would let him reroll but tell him that he has to go back to to BWL and AQ40 to get his gear. Especially AQ40 is very conducive to rerolls since you can get the full set guaranteed in a very short amount of time. Ask Nuru who posts here. He rerolled from Horde to Alliance on my server and now has better gear than me who played the same char since day 1:(

We dont do AQ40 or BWL anymore.

Don't confuse the new 5- and 10-man instances with the new 25-man raid instances. There is enough information out about Hellfire Citadel and Coilfang Resevoir to support that observation on the 5-mans although they seem to have no timer. However, Kharazan looks to be a hugely long 10-man level 70 instance with a timer and except for Magtheridon - the new Onyxia - we really don't know how long or complex or difficult the new raid game will be.

My point is simply that your observation may well hold true during the levelling period. But when we hit the level cap and start raiding again we don't know enough about what that will look like to observe that people will want to play dual mains.

Whitestreak's point about losing certain classes is well-made. My only response would be to suggest that that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. If people are tired of their warlocks and druids, best let them change during the level grind and find more. Ultimately we'll have to figure out how many mages, warriors, etc. we are going to need to raid. I'd rather do that in a way that lets me choose
Mr. He-was-a-great-warlock-pre-xp-and-makes-a-great-warrior-post-xp
over
Mr. He-always-was-kind-of-a-crappy-warrior-but-we-needed-more-warriors-at-the-time. And if you were a great druid but make a crappy Warrior when you switch mains, well, there is no guarantee of a spot now is there?