Another season coming up. Pvp gearing for multiple specs is impossible in the current design. I believe this contributes to less healers as well in shuffle. It also helps remove anxiety of spec choices early in the season while you’re doing insane amounts of balance patches.
Proposed changes:
Make it so when you obtain a slot, the slot is unlocked. So once you have obtained legs, legs are pema unlocked. You can now buy unlimited amounts of legs either for free or via honor.
So if you need mastery for one spec. Haste for another. Or two sets of tier so that you have int enchant vs agility, then you can do all of these combinations. Same thing with weapons to get int vs agi vs str weapons. Or 1h vs 2h. Once weapons are unlocked then you can get more via honor or free.
This enables people to multi spec before the conq uncap happens way too late into the season.
For example, let’s say survival looks great going into the season and then you nerf it into oblivion and marks is buffed. Well you better go level another hunter instead.
This will let people multi spec as healers in shuffle as well earlier into the season.
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Being able to use crafted gear already solves this, you can recraft and change secondary stats whenever you want, as many times as you want.
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No it doesn’t rofl.
Not every spec wants 2 tier. 4 tier. You also aren’t going to craft every piece of gear and constantly pay to recraft to queue shuffle for a couple hours then recraft everything back while also playing mega suboptimal stats with crafted gear.
Not to mention, crafted pvp gear already kind of sucks because you can’t public order the recraft.
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There is an addon or something because every time I shout for a recraft 10+ people insta send me a tell with a pre-typed message, not really an issue, nor is gearing really an issue.
You have options to change your stats, on top of that its never been easier or quicker to have multiple characters let alone gearing multiple characters if changing specs (fotm hopping) is important to you early in the season.
This will do nothing to increase healers in shuffle either. This is just complaining for the sake of it.
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I dunno… I might have definitely qued some healer games mid season for fast games if I could have easily swapped specs.
But playing rsham who wants full mastery with no weapons feels pretty bad when you’re going full haste and have agi weapons…
I dunno if the fix suggested would do enough though… And anytime you make changes there is usually some unintended negative consequences.
Pvp gearing is fine and not a issue.
Just my opinion lol
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Crafted gear is there for you. If you are planning on playing fotm then just craft offpieces and whenever you swap to the op spec recraft
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This is before the conq uncap. People don’t have spare conquest for offspecs and you aren’t gimping your main spec for having fun in shuffle sometimes and bgs.
Nobody is going to recraft and re gem and re enchant every item to swap specs for one day.
And once again you can’t do this with tier sets.
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This is the best gearing has ever been, like ever
whatchu talkin bout willis
if i wanna meme and go all pve stats, I can
If I want to be basic and rock 40% vers, I can do that too
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Why are swapping specs for a day? This looks like a you issue more than the system
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Uhh…for fun? Maybe I want to get short shuffle queues so I swap healer for a bit. Maybe I want to queue bgs as moonkin for fun but I normally resto or feral in arena.
Having to level alts for every spec until you’re halfway through season is an astonishingly bad concept that is shocking that you don’t think so.
And people who are dps players won’t do this for healer alts…but later in the season they will queue shuffles as healer for fun sometimes.
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dude it takes like 6-10 hours to level to max
just make an alt
Get a friend, join discord, play eachother music and watch a movie in the background
Life good.
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What a horrible take.
I don’t want to level and gear 8 druids just to leapfrog rating and play a spec a couple hours a month.
Nobody is leveling and gearing 40 alts
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I think conq could go uncapped quicker (even immediately week 1? I don’t see this would be a problem as it’s already trash in pve), but other than that, gearing in tww is quicker and easier than any other expansion I’ve played so far. Being able to craft whatever you want makes it extremely customizable
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If you push rating you already run duplicates.
Let’s take hunter as an example.
You start with 2 by default for leapfrogging.
So now I have 2 marks hunters. Then marks gets obliterated 4 weeks in and everyone swaps survival. Now I level 2 more hunters. Then 2 more for bm.
Or what a lot of rating pushers have 3-5 alts of the same class for this already and they’ll just run a leapfrog alt that has terribly suboptimal gearing until conq uncap with one alt that has very good gearing.
And none of them are leveling a healer alt for fun. They just eventually get healing gear on conq uncap.
In an optimal setup you’d have to have at least 2 of every spec for leapfrogging rating which obviously most people aren’t also going to do.
There’s quite literally no downsides to my proposal for improving off speccing before conq uncap. This has no negative effect at all and changes nothing for the last half the season.
See that’s the mentality I’ll never actually understand.
You’d be a better player if you just stuck to MM even when it’s bad and learned all the intricacies and skill plays
Who actually wants to get high rated just because their spec is good. I slummed it on mw for 2 years before I got my time in the sun, now look at me.
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You play a healer. Go play the bottom of the barrel dps spec that nobody wants which is usually the worst hunter or dk spec and then go into lfg and see how much less enjoyable it is never getting into groups.
And if your argument is “make friends” then just delete every queueing system in the game.
And you’re completely ignoring the part where people will off spec for FUN in shuffle or blitz.
Dude I played castweaver/arms all season in s1 and got top 20 in my bracket and even took a few games off dno/mag
I think we got to 2450 playing the comp and the next arms warrior was like 2100 at the time