Quote Originally Posted by Ebalere View Post
I disagree. I think every class can benefit from having the other classes around, but you're really putting bears on a pedestal here. A pally can tank, but a bear could never do a mages job.

I manage just fine without a bear in the group, but without someone to heal or do damage the runs are going to be a pain.. and more than one bear usually leads to chaos unless they cooperate.

In my experience the fastest smoothest runs are 1 *good* bear (rarely you find one that knows proper crowd control in a PUG), at least one mage, preferably two, and the rest birds.

In closing, I agree that a good bear is complimentary to a fast run, but, is no more important to the run than any other class.
Read what he wrote right above your post. He also wrote it 20 minutes before you wrote this.