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So, as a classic TBC Prot Paladin, there is nothing that I would like to see more added to the game than dual spec functionality. I chose to make a prot pally because I essentially got stuck with the “fill” option in my friend group after everyone else snapped up Warlock, Hunter, Resto Druid, and Rogue. This left me with only one role option if we were ever going to be able to do dungeons together. Tank. We already had a druid, so that left Paladin or Warrior. Given the aoe power of warlocks and hunters, Pally was the clear choice.
The first few days of launch went well. We leveled together grinding dungeons, all was well. Then, I had to head back to work. The DPS grinded (ground?) quests, the healer spammed pug dungeons; and when days off arrived, I found myself a little on my own playing catch up. After some horrible pug dungeon experiences, I eventually opted to respec to ret and quest my way to 70. No problem. I caught up, I respecced back to prot, we ran dungeons, we ran heroics I gathered my pre bis, we started raiding, all was good. But now, I find myself with a wider variety of activities on my list of things to do between raids. AoE farm for gold to afford consumables (and eventually an epic flying mount, hopefully), tanking heroics, and pvp. All of which have very different optimal specs, and significantly different hot bar set ups, especially for Arena.
For me, dual spec is not about the gold as much as it is about the convenience of being able to swap between running a heroic, to jumping into a BG or arena with my buds without having to spend 15 minutes respeccing and reconfiguring my hot bars.
The reality of it is, despite really enjoying BGs and Arena, I simply haven’t done any of it since I hit 70.
Here are my thoughts of how I would like to see dual spec implemented to make more aspects of the game more accessible to more people, while hopefully keeping the people against it for various reasons, at least a little less pissed off.
- Make it so that you can change between 2 defined specs. Hot bars are unique for each spec.
- Make it so that you must be in a rested XP area in order to change specs to prevent swapping mid raid (or at least make it less efficient)
- Make it cost money. 10-20g is plenty for switching from 1 to the other. Keep the gold cost for changing either of the preset specs the same as the current cost to respec.
This would make having a PVE spec AND a PVP spec, or a DPS & Heal/Tank spec much more affordable and convenient, without making it completely free.
This choice SHOULD help with the shortage of tanks and healers available for dungeons, and increase the total people queuing for BGs which could help with the inflated que times as well.
I think this would be a good middle ground that might serve as a potential compromise for both sides.
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Hey Blizzard, you still looking at the forums?
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Although I kind of agree with player don’t know what they want, I still believe dual spec will be something attractive to be added into TBC classic. Dual spec really doesn’t have any downside to the game. from my point of view, unless someone give me some convincing reasons. #nochange is not a good reason apparently.
Dual Spec is sounding extremely friendly right now after this BG announcement.
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Now that horde’s 50 minute BG queues are gone, hopefully we can have our 6 hour searches for tanks / healers fixed.
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Ive spent probably 70% of my time in tbcc as prot for heroics and one of our 5 kara groups. I get the opportunity once a week to go ret for mags/gruuls since we have more than enough tanks otherwise to do 2 25 man groups. This week i also got to stay ret to do some heroics for the first time pretty much all tbcc, and managed to snag a couple of the bis pieces from some heroics.
i now kinda feel the desire to spec prot to play with my new toys, except i dont want to respec prot just to have t orespec back ret tuesday for an hour tops to do mags/gruuls, just to hve to respec back prot for kara immediately after
this is the kinda problem dual spec would fix.
wheres dual spec blizz. despite what a vocal minority would have you believe, it can only benefit the game.
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Literally Give us dual spec. The votes were all in as something the majority of the player base wanted. Not sure what the hold up is
probably waiting until wotlk classic when they’ll release a survey for f r e s h tbc classic servers +qol updates when its too late and nobody will be playing tbc servers
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Meh I could take it or leave it.
/signed Anyone who fights against duel-spec is out of touch with reality.
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I agree duel spec would be very nice!
You mean in the WotLK pre patch…
That’s like trying to claim that Alliance get Shaman “at the end of Vanilla”. No man it wasn’t.
It gets added in WotLK. Hopefully blizzard sticks with that.
Its actually a extremely HUGE ONE it would allow you to quests way faster and easier while being able to maybe change spec in seconds to do dungeons as a healer or tank to get faster group, It would be such a massive change and would save a lot of people thousands of gold over time too.
What I would call a “minor QoL change” would be AOE looting that would indeed be minor for the average players and insanely good for other, but details.
“The path to retail is paved with quality of life changes.”
I’ll pass.
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Bumping again so blizzard just implements this. If we have merc mode may as well just give us dual spec. Dual spec at least is just a QOL update vs destroying the game with unbalanced unplayable faction %
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It wont. It needs changes. SomeChanges. Stop with Nochanges mentality. Look at the BGs.
In addition to dual spec, there are 2 things I would love to see in classic.
Transmog and the modern auction house interface. Neither has any gameplay implications.
Transmog has massive gameplay implications. And so of course does dual spec. Just another case of Retail players who’ve grown used to their decisions having no meaning or significance and want to carry that mentality over to Classic.
I understand it, given how Blizzard has handled TBC. But it’s still bad for the game.
Transmog does not have massive gameplay implications.