Dual spec sounds great in theory, but the implementation would take time and money for blizzard which aint gonna happen. Instead, reduce the cost of respeccing, so I can go from Arms to Prot more often and essentially play what is needed when its needed. It doesn’t have to be free, but 100g to tank a 10/25 and then go back to pvping is too much. This isn’t 2005, allow us to have fun.
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I mean I’d be cool with this as well, anything to escape the chains of 100g respec back and forth.
Not really sure why people fight and claw against this, it (reduced cost/dual spec) raised the quality of the game. Not every change was bad for the game and this was one of them.
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-Plays a 15 year old game
-Complains about 15 year old mechanics
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Same. They never have a valid reason for opposing it either. Usually rambling about gold-sinks, as if gold can be sunk if people refuse to sink it.
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So in original tbc it functioned as a good gold sink. But now everyone has a ridiculous amount of gold and it’s quite easy to get for pretty much everyone. I’m all for lowering the cost to like 10-15g cap. Would be great to be able to farm something on my Druid by respecing.
Making the game easier is unacceptable. Earning money is part of the game balance.
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So I’m guessing you’re quitting when wrath comes out then? Because even if it doesn’t come out now it’s inevitable anyway
I mean, he wouldn’t have to, I’m sure there will be a forever TBC server and there’s still forever vanilla servers right now.
Yeah but those places are ghost towns now, perhaps if blizzard released 1-2 fresh TBC servers (along with classic) while wrath is going it would keep things alive
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It actually functioned as intended, which was as a deterrent to respecc’ing. The dual-spec feature they add later (in WotLK) continues to act the same way, but adds an additional spec.
Lowering the cost to respec would be a change against the intended design of the time. Not that I am against lowering respec fees:
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Why do you think it was deterrent? Because it was a gold sink. It’s not preventing you from respecing, it’s preventing you from respecing because it requires a good chunk of gold to do it often. I also don’t really get the premise behind it at this point in time. The economy is screwed up anyways, some healers and tanks not being forced pay the full amount to respec to do things at a respectable level really isn’t going to make a difference.
edit I also want to point out that I’m ok with mages not getting dual spec or a reduced cost respec because that could actually make things worse. Dirty aoe farmers.
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Literally because of the blue quote linked, “We would like to continue to support the idea that respecs should be very carefully thought out strategic decisions.”
I’ve seen this claimed, but have yet to see a reference.
Agreed 
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If everyone has lots of gold then why does the price need to be reduced?
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I guess I should have said in comparison to then.
Healers and tanks basically cannot farm outside of instances without a gathering profession. In the sense that for any length of time farming it’s a waste because killing a mob takes twice as long or worse, it’s incredibly inefficient. I played the ah and farmed my backside off in classic vanilla and some in classic tbc so I’m sitting pretty personally but for the ones that haven’t it’s a really rough grind to attempt to catch up. I would still enjoy dual spec or a reduced cost because that would mean I could justify respecing for a single dungeon or to farm for an hour or two without burning more gold than I would earn.
You don’t need a reference. What does respecing require you to do? Run to a town for two minutes and pay 50g or 100g if you have to go back. That’s why it’s a deterrent. It doesn’t require anything else besides obviously already having the gear.
I do if I am going to agree with the claim (which I don’t).
I must be missing the point you’re making, as it isn’t clear to me.
Ah ok that makes sense; I just was a bit confused as you could see.
Ok once more. You say this. It was a deterrent to respecing and not a gold sink. I ask you what respecing requires. It requires gold. Thus it was a deterrent because it was a gold sink. That’s it.
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Ah! Thanks for clarifying. Sometimes obvious things are lost in text-based conversations. 
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Yeah no that’s fair. I explained it properly in my head but forgot the part where you put it into words so others can see.