What spec do you raid in and why?

[Rubiks-Q-Bert]

Shannox: Marks. Its just alot easier to kill the dogs faster.

I don't know about that. That's one fight where I have never not been #1 in damage.

Well sadly, I havent been able to have the experience as raiding with BM mainly because Marks has always been my main spec, and love playing it. But because I had to drop my BM spec for a survival one mainly -just- for the Bethtilac fight.

Luckily my raid group we run with 2 hunters. I strictly raid BM and the other hunter has MM/SV. The one thing about BM is that unless your cooldowns are up you can't be relied on for a heavy crit like you need on rageface. Yeah the AoE is low too but we do okay on those fights since we have a warlock too.

[Monica Gems]

I don't raid, but I play Survival. I know it's not the best spec right now, probably not for Dungeons and PvP any more than it is for Raiding, but I was Survival all Wrath and it's always been my 'real' spec - I have BM offspec for shiny pets and heals when I need 'em, but I built my old character up around the feel survival gives off - guns, traps and explosions. Lots of explosions. Back in Wrath I picked it because it was 'flashy' - I'm serious. Something about explosive shot just seems incredibly badass to me.

I cannot argue with this. I miss Surv a ton, so while my main is off being MM and elitist, my alt (also 85 and non raiding) is Surv. Explosive Shot is the 2nd most fun attack I've ever used on any class (Lava Burst wins that round).