1000 Gold for Dual talent specFollow

Yeah, 1k isn't much.
If you respec to do PvP every week you'll end at spending roughly 150g a week for respeccing and reglyphing twice.
So within 6 weeks the dual spec option is both cheaper, quicker and easier.

Meh, there goes over half of my money, again.

Ugh.

1000? I woulda rather saw 500 TBH.

Hopefully the new dailies area that they mentioned will actually produce decent money for time spent, the current dailies sure do not. At Lv70, I was making money faster with IoQD at Lv70, then the dailies at Lv80 in Northrend will produce, even if you do SoH (the best dailies hub I've managed to find), it still takes longer, because of all of the travel involved.

Yea, I can't understand the problem folks have earning Gold. Even casually during the week I can draw in about 1k gold simply doing daily's and a little farming (average 2-3 hours daily). It's really not hard to earn cash. If all you're doing is running Dungeons/Raids and not out in the world (ie. sitting in Dalaran until the next PuG or group comes along), then you're jippin' yourself. There's dozens of daily's spread out, some are ridiculously easy (Feeding whats-his-face for Sons of Hodir? Easiest...daily...evar!).

1k is a drop in the bucket. Glad it's that cheap and not like 5k, that'd take me...like...a week.

How is money dropping into peoples laps? Apart from some daily quest money or spending tiresome time farming ore amongst the Chinese in Sholzar, I'd like to know where it is available so freely?

1000g, it's expensive, but worth the cost, I'll probably spend more customizing an off-spec kit.

Honestly, you need to take up some new game professions if you think 1k is too much. I just started up a new toon on a new server after not playing in 2.5 years and I had 1k gold before I hit level 50. I bought my epic mount at 60 and am back up to 1.6k at 64. It really just isn't that hard to make gold in this game. It never has been, and from what I can tell it's only gotten easier.

1k for dual spec is only half of what I was expecting. I had been thinking 2k, myself. I don't think 1k is an unreasonable price at all.

How long does it take you to do all those dailies? From my experiences, traveling between all of those zones and quest hubs to hit the said dailies takes a ridiculous amount of time. That's why I am hoping and praying this "New IoQD" will be worth it, I hate the stinking traveling everywhere to grab dailies. Yes, some of the dailies are easy. Some are also fairly annoying, and many are Sub-77 (green) which only yield 9g each instead of 12-15, especially those in Sholazar, 2 of the Wyrmrest, All of the Kalu'ak, etc.

There's Icecrown Dailies, but a good chunk of those are PvP dailies (no thanks) as well. Again, we need a good concentrated Daily Hub instead of this scouring the world for 2-5 dailies here, 2-5 there.. ugh. Too much boring travel, setting your character on Auto-run and proceed to fall half asleep. It'd help if WG wasn't right in the middle, and you were _forced_ to fly around it...

I disagree. Much of what you have wrote is assuming you have alts with multiple professions. My main is pretty much it, I only started playing 4 months ago. I have BS and mining at 450, but someone previously pointed out mining is moot now. The nodes in Sholzar/Icecrown and Storm Peaks are so heavily farmed it's a joke. BS makes no money and if your having to buy the mats from Chinese farmers you're going to make even less if you do make something that sells.

I have spent annoying amounts of gold enchanting and gemming my kit to spec for Naxx. Nearly everything I have made went on the flying mount and training.

Yes I will make 1k, but it will not be "easy" as you put it.

Ah, I see the problem.

You know, there's this building? It's called an Auction House. You can use it to both buy and sell items - including, and this is important, buying raw materials and then turning them into something else.

Buy the Eternals and Titanium for Titansteel transmutes. Buy some dust and GCCs (and even shards!) to throw on some Velium and make enchants.

Too bad every other miner/alchemist is doing the same.

Buy 3x Titanium for 25g each, that's 75g.
Buy 1x Eternal Fire for 20-30g, that's 95-115g.

If your luck is bad, and you're low on Eternal Shadow/Earth, add another 20-25g, and that's nearly 150g.

Guess what? A Titansteel Bar only sells for 150-175!

Gaining 20some gold out of a 20hr cooldown is not what I'd call a moneymaker.

Ehm, nobody keeps you from going to IoQD to do your dailes there right? *shrug*

Not a bad price. I personally hate dailies, because I leveled to 80, currently working my main two alts(67 DK and 72 pally) who do non-stop questing.

I'm not complaining about the money, just saying..at my point..dailies get boring(especially doing the same thing over and over and over and over)..

Maybe that's the answer, everyone just drop BS and take up JC.

I've been silly enough to read the PTR forum on the O-Boards. What I've been reading there, and which some people here seem to echo, is the sentiment, that they don't want to be hardcore, so 1000G is too much for them. Some people seem to be thinking that 1000G is too much for the casuals. The usual responses to that - which I tend to agree with - are that it's dead-easy to make that amount of gold in a few days tops.
But what almost nobody seems to think of, and which is even a better reason for casuals to shut up about it, is that Dual-spec isn't meant for them. If you're so casual, why would you need dual-speccing in the first place? So you don't have to worry about paying 1000G if you're that casual, because you don't need it anyways.
The cost is being compared to Epic Flying, but in all honesty I think casuals at least have some right to complain about that, because they do benefit from being able to fly faster. There's almost no benefit for casuals in being able to Dual-spec.

Now people are probably going to say things along the lines of "But I am a casual who also likes to PvP, so I need dual-spec!".
No. If you're someone who casually PvPs, you can easily make a hybrid build that allows you to both PvP casually, and do heroics for instance. If you want to min-max PvPing, you're not that casual anymore, and should be up to the daunting task of collecting a mere 1000G.

When it comes to being casual, but still raid and therefore needing Dual-spec: The moment you're calling yourself casual, but are at least hardcore enough to be raiding 25 mans, you should be farming for enchants, flasks and food anyways, so you should be perfectly able to get your hands on 1000G.

TL;DR version: If you whine about the gold price, because you are "casual", you probably don't need it anyways. If you do need it, you are not that casual anymore, and you should be able to get 1000G easily.