Dual-spec Q&AFollow

I'm wondering about this, if it will be an unfair "penalty" to hunters. I've been MM since I was a wee lad of level 10, almost 4 years ago. Never switched back and forth when one was favored over the other or buffed/nerfed, so not sure how important having an exotic pet is. Though I do switch pets-CC for pvp, dps for instances, and a gorilla for aoe aggro when grinding.

What if a BM hunter wants to duel spec to MM or Surv, one to raid with and one to pvp with, or one to raid with one to do regular pve; grinding/quests etc. Really, that's no different than a priest switching to heal for a raid then back to Shadow to grind, yet it appears that they would still have to go to a town either for the initial switch, or for the after switch, due to the "long CD" whereas, the other classes won't.

Yeah, but it is highly, highly unlikely that it would ever REALLY be a problem.

A. 80+% of spec switching will probably occur in towns, where there is always a Stable master.

B. The other 20% will occur mainly in instances. This will mostly be populated by hybrids or healers/tanks switching to meet needs. The only reason a Hunter would need to switch spec inside a raid (hopefully SOMEONE is a scribe) is if he screwed up and forgot to switch his spec/pet when in town. The CD change is to really MAKE it fair for BM Hunters.

I mean, if the Druid forgets his healing gear, he doesn't get a long CD ability to change his current gear for the radically different set in his bank.

It is your responsibility to show up for a raid prepared. Blizz put in a system that would make sure you weren't totally f*cked if you screwed up and didn't stable your Exotic pet, but may no longer use it.

Plus, you will usually return to town after a raid to switch your spec back/get different gear/consumables/your PVP pet ANYWAY before you head into a BG or Arena.

I agree. I think this is mainly going to be a time/money saver for people that are already respeccing to raid/grind/pvp, I don't see the overall numbers of healers or tanks increasing. Although, there may be more tanks and healers that may volunteer to do runs if they are bored, whereas now they wouldn't because they don't want to waste money respeccing just to run a pug.

Honestly the ability to swap specs is the least important part of the system for me. Because it also comes with:

~Ability to swap specs out at a dungeon or raid

~Ability to swap glyphs instead of having to go to the AH or guild bank and hoping they're in stock (and they often aren't!)

~Ability to set a spec before finalizing so I don't have to completely restart if I misclick (you're be surprised how often I do that...)

~Ability to swap cast bars


All THOSE things excite me very much, the 50g to respec wasn't that big an issue, it was all the other hassles that came along with it.

Huge let down, it should be available as soon as you hit level 10 with no cost. I was looking forward to levelling a feral/resto druid. Wont be able to do this now.

I'm looking forward to this.

I've leveled my Shaman as elemental. I would like to go to healing but worry that with my current gear, and my personal skill at healing that I wouldn't be up to the challenge of healing a heroic. This gives me the chance to do non-heroics as a healer, and do heroics as dps to get better gear for when I do have the skills for healing.

I've already switched back and forth a number of times and the cost and down time is prohibitive.

With this ability I'll be able to switch around way easier so that I can both learn the healing side of things, as well as still get into heroics with little down time and or cost.

Now I also believe that it should be available from lvl 10 right on up. There was one argument that it would be hard for people and the developers to say which point where, and when on the fly as they are lvling. I think that's crap. You have one spec on you at any time. Therefore you can change that spec by your one point just like you do now. If you want to change the other spec you have to go to a lexicon and do so. From a development point of view that is just as easy at lvl 10 as it is at lvl 80. It doesn't matter how many points you have to spend, the dynamics are already in place to allow it.

Also I like many others have said. Hope this is cheap to get going.

Like most of us I don't have 5k gold sitting around collecting dust. I like most of us don't/can't farm 1k gold/day.

One idea on cost is to have it scale by lvl. If they implement it at level 10 at the cost of say 5g per point at lvl 80 that would be 355g as a one time fee. That should be reasonable to most people and still not break the bank on a new player.

It could even be cool to implement as a quest that gives you your own personal lexicon that's only usable every 22 hours or something.

There you have it.

Flame away my good friends, flame away.

Fugeth

This would be the main consideration for me. Our small guild has a surplus of tanks and healers- theres only 10 level 80's atm; 3 tankadins, 1 teddybear, 2 priests, 2 treehuggers and 2 hunters. As you can see, even a 5 man HC guild run requires a respec here n there so this ability to chop and change would be of great benefit to me and our guild.

Oh, and yes some of us could respec permanently but, of the tanks and healers, myself included (tankadin) nobody particularly want to respec dips- we rolled as we did 'cause that's what we enjoy the most.

Mind you, I cant ***** too hard- any idea how long it takes to get a pug group together? "tank and healer need 3 dps for HC (dungeon)- pm for invite"...not long at all :)

Anyhoo, back to work before the MD starts growling to loudly..

ttfn,

Jon

Great post, rated up.



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