I’m not a court jester, my goal isn’t to entertain or interest you.
No, I truly believe we’ve been given relatively conclusive signs that dual spec isn’t a possibility.
You can think it’s delusional all you want, but the longer TBCC goes on without it being added, maybe you’ll start to wonder how I arrived there instead of just assuming it’s all delusions? To see why you couldn’t see what I did?
Everything you said here:
Applies to Dual Spec. We didn’t get surveys on Bundled Transfers, or Same Faction BGs, or the Alliance-only BG participation award, or a lot of other changes that have come down the pipe. As for where the wind blows… the only indication of that was spammed forum posts and a generalized dislike for the state of server population problems, BG queues, faction balance, PvE balance, etc.
We have a generalized dislike of the lack of fluidity available to jump between PvE and PvP specs.
We have a generalized dislike for how piss-poor Arena and BG participation is across all players.
We have a generalized dislike for having not much to do outside of raid content.
We have a generalized dislike for the role imbalances for PvE.
There is plenty of dislike to go around and lots of people vocalizing about it. It wasn’t like everyone circled around Same Faction BGs PRIOR to it being announced, people latched onto it AFTER the fact. Merc mode was floated more than once and often got shot down as the LEAST TBC-faithful change… and yet that’s what we got out of all the suggestions.
You see what you want to see using exclusively post hoc reasoning. Dual Spec is no more or less likely than a TBC Merc Mode, and had we never gotten the Same Faction BG solution, you’d be arguing that Blizzard was just as unlikely to address the Horde’s QQ as they are Dual Spec.
Don’t be silly.
Suit yourself.
Fortunately, this issue has a definitive ending with a clear winner.
If they add it, I was wrong. If not…well, I know you’ll just find some avenue to argue that you were still right anyway 
I mean if you can find me saying anywhere that they’ll definitely add it, you might have a point.
Well I’m not really interested in the discussion of whether Blizzard has the authority to add it or not because that’s a completely pointless (and wholly irrelevant) question with an obvious answer that everybody knows already.
I’m interested in whether they will add it or not.
I don’t think they will, because of things I’ve seen them do, and say, collectively.
I know that for you it’s a desirable scenario for you to not really say either way though, because it gives you the option to argue that there was no way to know for sure that they would or wouldn’t, even after TBCC comes to a close. Pretty much everyone who is against dual spec will already have won through legitimate confirmation bias at that point and the topic will no longer be relevant though, since with a potential WOTLKC looming…we all know it comes in that expansion anyway.
That you think this is a matter of “winning” or “losing”…
In our fight to keep dual spec from being added? I mean yeah. We care about the game we play not being ruined, is that so strange?
Quite strange, the “fighting” part.
Don’t put too much stock in it, they’re just turns of phrase.
Just like people in this thread “fighting” for dual spec to be added, same difference.
Huh?
Oh, right, goldfish memory.
Sorry, I was under that impression. Still am.
Is there any other reason you’re here?
Assuming Wrath is added to the Classic lineup I dont think TBCC will see dual specs before then, if at all. Maybe they’ll add it when TBCC is a 100 man cluster of dead servers or a SoM TBC+ where you’ll have 12 months to get through the content.
Other than that it does appear to be the case that Blizz has zero interest in adding dual specs an expansion early.
Not to disappoint and ruin your most commonly used insult of which you seem to have a difficult time replacing with anything more clever, but goldfish can have an effective memory span of up to 5 months, which well trumps the amount of time we’ve been discussing this subject.
Though it is painfully expected that your knowledge-base stretches only as far as the utterly superficial, and is devoid of easily researchable information that can be found in seconds.
I did answer it, you must have missed it.
I’d like to remind you, that when i pressed you on why dual spec would be good for the game, and how it would increase overall playtime, which would be good for the bottom line, you also couldn’t go into any detail.
Not sure how you arrived there. the topic of scheduling is just a response to megarune
I disagree with this, however, planning things is a life thing. sort of happens in lots of places.
This is big facts for blizz.
Mostly aimed at folks like Redheadchild and others who treat lack of sufficient planning (according to them) as insufficient reason to alter or adapt the game. The “lazy/entitled” response has been trotted out a number of times in a number of ways, and it really just isn’t all that powerful or compelling an argument.
Danke.
If the shoe fits…
Im not knocking the playstyle. I dont schedule my life around the game. I log in and out as I please and have played this way, well, pretty much since mid Wrath. As such, I am not and was not a good candidate for raid teams or any other kinds of organized play like dedicated arena teams or rated battlegrounds.
Being a random BG hero was plenty fun enough for me even though I wasn’t going to be impressing anyone with my gear or ratings. It was the tradeoff I made for playing how I want to play.
Im fairly certain not every poster in favor of dual specs falls into the lazy/entitled category but there have been enough posts and posters where they basically intimate that the game should be skewed to their casual and unfocused approach to the game. Thats not limited to dual specs either but there are plenty of those types out there.
In more than one case it has been a fair criticism.
Everyone schedules raids. We’ve all admitted that. We just don’t plan out every single aspect of the game. For most of us that’s not possible. You can’t plan on when you’re going to join a pug dungeon run. But after all that you return to Do you plan out raids, like we didn’t already have that conversation. It’s like you didn’t read a word posted in this short sub-thread or you didn’t understand it.
If you guess blizzard will do nothing you will be correct 9 times out of 10. A good gambler with a decent knowledge will bet on no all the time and come away as a big winner. Even though they would lose on changes like the drum nerf, the pally seal change, multiboxing etc. Frankly I don’t care what your guess is. It didn’t stop me from posting on the multiboxer threads when I was told the same thing there and it won’t stop me in the dual spec threads