jaylexx wrote:
Well, as for the Ret-Pally comments....sometimes you don't have much of a choice, the consensus among our family-type guild is that we'd never dump a guildmate out of a raid/group due to people's opinion about their particular spec. This ret-palli has always been either 1st or 2nd in our 5-man groups...side by side with a lock. He is outfitted with mostly epic pvp gear and does pretty good dps. Plus he worked just as hard as everyone else to get attuned.
As long as he's got epic level 70 PvP gear, then he should be fine. The reason that I questioned him was because you made it sound like you guys had all just reached 70. Ret doesn't work in a mix of blue and green gear. It's one of the most gear dependent specs out there.
I'm also in a casual guild that doesn't dictate people's specs for raiding. It's fine if that's what you're looking for, but I can tell you this: We've progressed MUCH slower than we would have if we did ask people to spec for raiding. You'll be fine as long as you don't mind struggling a little, because a certain group makeup is required even in Kara. It's hard to take people that don't pull their weight into a 10 man raid, unless some of the people far outgear the instance.
jaylexx wrote:
One of our warriors is full-out prot, sitting with 14k armor and 13k hp's Myself the OT am sitting at a 33/5/22 build but still with 14k armor and just over 12k hp's & 508 defense in def-stance.
It sounds like your MT is geared enough to start Kara. However, as others have mentioned, 2 prot tanks is overkill especially after the first few bosses. If you're willing to put together a DPS set, you'd be much better off speccing for DPS, and just off tanking when needed. Feral druids make the best Kara OTs, as they can tank and DPS even on the same pull.
Good luck!
-Camel