Interesting. I'm not sure you understand what
hybrid class play is in this case, because you keep obsessing over the term "weakness" or "gimped" without understanding the missing term "support role," even completely omitting "buffer class" as your role description.
The part that really stuck out to me was the bolded section: I would think that anyone rolling a captain, having read the actual class description, understands that a hybrid class is by its very nature a support class. That
is its role, and it's
not a problem that captains aren't intended to compete directly with other trinity-role classes, and the role description doesn't even fall into the trinity as it is ("buffer"). (I've discussed the problem with hybrid balancing
elsewhere ,
in re italicized section.) As a support class, yes, we shine in groups; note that at least
23 out of 38 of our class skills are group-oriented. We're like the glue of fellowships. And as that support class, it's not uncommon for us to take up emergency off-tanking, healing, while doing DPS all at the same time.
If you can't do the hybrid, time to do something else.
