If your team is matched against a team that has a healer and your team does not, someone should have the option to swap specs to a healer in order to balance the match more.
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I like the idea.
Correct me if I’m wrong but if you queue as a healer & DPS it lets you switch between the two before the bg starts and if you queue as just a DPS it’ll give you an error that says “this is not the role you have selected” or something along those lines if you try to switch to healer.
I usually only play the same spec in bgs and haven’t had a geared off spec so far in Legion/BFA that was comparable to my main specs, so I don’t remember exactly what happens when you try.
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No, it won’t. The game will pick a role for you, and then you’re stuck.
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you can only switch specs between dps specs, you can’t change role even if you queued for two different roles.
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Yea your pretty much stuck. I have gear setup for resto / feral / and balance / and could even play guardian on this toon so i just choose whatever i feel like playing as at the time.
It is just annoying when i can heal but the game wont let me. Especially like mentioned above when you pick heals but get chosen as dps and cant swap.
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Yup would be awesome. I’ve had it plenty of times to where I que as both and the other side ends up with an extra healer… Would love to swap to resto for those. Definitely don’t want to play enhance when you’re a healer down 
Blizzard! This is some tech you should work on!
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We had this in the past and Bgs were more imbalanced. That’s why they decided to lock roles.
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Things can change
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I’ve always seen it equal at the start. If anything there will be a +/- 1.
If a healer quits, then I am not sure how that’s handled but it seems like a new healer always joins in. I don’t see what the need for changing specs would be if teams are even already.
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Yea im just saying if theyre not. Had a few occasions when they arent
What about when they are not. Low level has had a healer explosion since they removed the healer cap. Sometimes its as much 8 healers on one side. If they were allowed to change to dps would make it better for everyone.
My comment was referring to max level pvp. Leveling bgs have always been a mess. I’ve only done a bg or two in the leveling brackets over the past few months and it was a huge healer imbalance. Even if they straightened out healer imbalance in them, there are countless other issues due to classes not having their full kit yet.
You can change from DPS to Tank at the start of a bg. Regardless of how you que. Allowing healers to do it seems like a good idea until we have bgs with 5 healers again and no ones dies
Wish they did have a full toolkit earlier. Maybe when/if blizz implement that level squish it will be more smoothed out. I liked MoP class flow, both in what skills they got as they level and base design.
#reverttoMoP
Most of mop was pretty fun. The cc chains were atrocious though.
Everyone was Macgyver with shotguns it felt like lol.
Yea they can. Hence the role lock change which does work at max level.
Maybe that’s what I was remembering then.
Seems like there are possible solutions allowing for role locking to be removed, but blizz not caring too much about randoms/pvp in general will leave it be.
Wow that would be awful. I cant even imagine a situation like that happening in current wow.
OH WAIT.
https://imgur.com/ONwmjNh
Right now, Blizzard takes the blame when there are uneven numbers of healers. The role lock helps shield players on hybrid classes from teammates pressuring them to change specs. Without the lock, players might shift the blame to their teammates.
If hybrid classes don’t swap to a healing spec, they’ll get blamed for a loss and maybe they’ll be accidentally kicked out of the bg to make room for a healer.