I never respec my characters in Era. I leave my priest as disc pvp and just PvE as that… i simply refuse to spend 100g just to play the game. its so insane to earn 100g normally in era without GDKPing… the passive gold isnt that great if you arent raiding.
So pvp spec it is… deal with it i guess.
It depends on the class - disc is pretty good in both.
But like a rogue you will be horrible at pve in a pvp spec. A rogue in pre-bis will out dps a rogue in full t3 that is pvp spec.
Same with warrior - fury is terrible in pvp (unless you are like the 4th warrior in a wsg / ab group) but a fury warrior in pre-bis will obliterate a bis-geared arms warrior in pve dps.
Id rather just not do one side of the content (usually pve) than respec. 100g to go back and fourth is wild. Just no shot.
That’s why GDKPs are nice - but yeah I agree if I had to pick one I would pick pvp.
Or just pve until I have the gear I want and then only pvp.
But lucky I don’t have to worry about it because you can make 100x the respec cost in some GDKP runs (or 210x in my last naxx run).
They’re lowering respec cost and even hinted at dual spec.
To start, I agree, 100g per week to play both parts of the game absolutely does suck. I like that your spec is a thing that gives you pause and you don’t just up and change, but some classes need a completely different spec for PvP vs. PvE. I think WotLK had a nice solution there. Two specs, otherwise everything is the same.
Anyway, this is the one upside of the crazy RMT boosted inflation that Classic Era has seen. If you want to raid, or items off the AH good luck. Prices are nuts and no normal person can keep up. However, if you wanna buy stuff that the game itself sells this is much more attainable.
With some extremely casual herb farming I can make 100g per day if I wanted to. I stress extremely casual… and I don’t even farm that much. I’m on the Mankrik cluster and there’s some low level herbs that sell for pretty decent. Make a druid alt and get it to 30-40 and you should actually be set.
Pro tip, do yourself a huge favour… after SoD releases make a point of logging into Era to do some farming. Squirrel mats away until SoD wanes and people come back to Era, then make that money 
But back on topic… 100g to spec back and forth is an unnecessarily high tax to PvE and PvP on the same character.
I always go back and forth on this. I very much dislike dual spec, but not sure if the respec cost is too high or too low.
It is a sort of tax on the optimal pve classes - which in a way balances out their overtuned dps.
For example, a hunter can easily pvp / pve in the same spec (0-31-20) not until really late in the game is it worth to move the survival points into BM and even then, it is totally optional.
Most healers can also pve / pvp in the same spec.
However, a warrior / rogue simply cannot - that they pay that ‘tax’ in exchange for being top tier at pve and pvp in the correct spec. (there are also a ton of players that create funky hybrid builds that are not optimal at either but let them get away with not respecing.)
So in that sense, adding dual spec or reducing the cost is a buff to rogues / warriors and a nerf to the other classes.
I thought about this issue a lot when deciding which classes to make and I believe having to make tradeoffs like that is a big part of what makes Era really good over the long term.
Yeah i know, im talking specifically about era (since this is after all a classic forum)
Guess SoD needs its own forum.
100g is just 5 mins of gathering in swamp of sorrows for blindweed and fadeleaf…
Or just disenchant a few lvl 50 items.
You kidding me?
Lol yeah, sure man. 5 mins of herbing for 100g.
Mankrik cluster. 1 stack of blindweed is 27g… 30 mins of farming JUST blindweed nets you almost 100g by itself. The other herbs in that zone included within 5-10 mins is upwards of 120g…
Go make a char on it and look at the auction before commenting on not being able to make money.
There are very easy ways to sustain your consumes and respect costs. Just gotta use your brain.
I (like the majority of others) play on whitemane, which is significantly larger and loaded with gold sellers and bots picking flowers all day.
its cool you can do that on a moderately empty server… not possible on whitemane.
His advice to you sounds like Bloomsday type of advice tbh.
Ha. Right?
100g in 5 mins.
This dude trying to say you can make 1200g an hour picking herbs in SoS? Yeah ok lol.
And oh just disenchant items… on a priest who can’t solo elite dungeon mobs? Or ninja the items for DE? Lololol
Mankrik cluster has just as if not the same pop as whiteman pvp clusters… We have the same issues with herb bots. The economy on PvP servers are only 50% higher overall compared to PVE. For obvious reasons.
You’re just ignoring easy solutions to your own problem.
You’ll likely do the same on SoD complaining about how the economy gets corrupt due to boosters and bots. Meanwhile you can make gold just fine but you wont be able to GDKP in BFD with said gold lol
That is just completely false. Go check ironforge. 9100 on whitemane and 2400 on mankrik
Oh and mankrik is a pve server, so it’s not like they aren’t pveing. They are. There is nothing else to do.
Whitemane probably has far more than that simply because it’s pvp and some ppl just world pvp and don’t raid.
Stop typing, this isn’t getting any better for you. At all.
I really hope we don’t get the SoM CC nerf, that crap is so toxic to a party of normal players trying to do a dungeon. They can just put group level disparity caps in the game. Strat/Scholo and ZG will have to be directly addressed though.
Yep but there seems to be not many people that cares about this.