There’s a ret in my guild. He has pretty great gear (much better than my fury warr), brings all his consumes and buffs, never complains or causes drama, always keeps his blessings up, rarely dies, not until the end of a wipe - everyone likes him. He’s good.

His DPS is crap, mind you, (I’ve easily doubled it on the suboptimally geared fury) but as long as the GM is cool with him being there, there’s no problem, and bosses die. A lot of classes never break top 5-10 dps anyway. A half-afk hunter can do shit damage, half of a fury’s, all night but no one says anything. This guy is often hovering around their level in DPS. If you’re bringing 1 more priest instead of a pally healer it’s really not bad to bring a ret to keep blessings up.

Yes, I get a little annoyed when he wins a roll on something good for me (I remember being salty over flameguard gauntlets but I kept it to myself) but honestly loot is so scarce that I always get annoyed at losing a roll.

It’s the GM’s decision at the end of the day, and if players want to bitch and whine because someone else is allowed to play their class in the raid, then they’re being immature. The bosses (at least up til AQ40, I haven’t done Naxx yet) don’t require 2019 theorycrafted levels of dps. If you have 30 people focused on mechanics you’ll succeed within 2 minutes either way. If anything, bringing all fury warriors for melee with optimal dps would just break the game. You just shit out too much damage.