Set Role not working

Minor issue here but really annoying. Whenever I enter a BG or an arena as a healer my role is automatically set to dps. I’ve tried changing my dungeon queue role to healer and it won’t change what I’m set to automatically. It’s really annoying when trying to sort frames in arena by role and having to manually select my role every game.

Again not sure why this is happening but it is always set to dps and never to healer even though I am full resto spec.

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What role do you have set in your talent frame?

Check talent trees
Press N - top right corner will have an icon associated with the spec. Make sure that one is marked appropriately.

Doesn’t always function as it intended though. I got in my muscle memory to always change role in all groups.

Set your default role from your Talent Tree, per spec

That shouldn’t matter.

Why not? Pretty sure that is the default that gets set when you join a group.

And seems the next two replies after me are also suggesting the same thing, so if it doesn’t matter, why is that everyone’s first idea?

Because it doesn’t matter, what spec I am in when i sign up for a dungeon is in no way what spec I will do the dungeon in.

For example why even let people sign up for multiple roles if it just assumes you’ll do it in the role you are currently in?

And BTW the retail LFG tool does not have this bug it actually properly remembers your roles.

set role hasn’t worked at all since they released the new lfg tab. it just defaults to whatever your top spec (if dual specced) is labeled as.

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This. My priest is default set to healer after group invite even if I queue as dps. And the dps icon is on the dual spec tab.
Still automatically set to healer in group.
Which means I rarely get to play my spriest build.

One thing that seems to consistently bug it out is if you’re in a raid and the raider joins LFG.

Which should have no effect on your personal LFG but it does.

Yes, and…? I don’t get your point of this. This thread wasn’t about what the LFG tool at all. It was actually more about PvP groups, and the LFG tool was only mentioned by the OP as an attempted fix, but it didn’t fix the OP’s issue because the LFG system and the role for your current spec are not linked at all.

You can list yourself in LFG with all roles (even ones you cannot do or don’t currently have a spec for), but when you join a group–which is what the OP is talking about–the default role you are assigned should be what you have selected in your currently active talents. The game does not care what you intend to do–only what you are right now.

Actually it does care in retail where the tool is not a buggy POS.

The tool should remember my last selection and it does not in classic. It will either only list me as one role or not list me with any role at all.

If I queue tank/dps or heal/dps that should be exactly what it shows next time I queue and it does not.

Whenever I enter a BG in Disc spec, I am listed as DPS. Whenever I enter a BG on my SubRogue, I am listed as a tank.

One of many, many lingering bugs that Blizz will never fix. I’d prefer they work on all the jump/wall exploits in Warsong tbh.

Ah tyvm! I will try this!

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