What happens when

[Obliterated-mankrik]

Yes fellow gamer. It builds character.

[Fatflufybird-arugal]

Just seems unreasonable to me that you’re straight up being prevented from engaging with a particular piece of content due to prohibitive respec costs and nothing else.

[Feywaif-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Obliterated-mankrik

Like walking uphill, in the snow to work, it builds character and stuff

You’re too weak to walk uphill in the snow both to work and back home?

[Twobblez-fairbanks]

It is not bad now that we get 30% SP from gear and also Nature’s Blessing which provides 30% of total intellect as SP. Earth shield with healing focus is insane.

[Zuggerino-earthfury]

Imagine thinking 50 gold isnt chump change

[Daedrik-benediction]

There is no way I’m not running BM in bg’s lol

[Hordeareemo-tichondrius]

@Donn-benediction

I want to be able to raid and do dungeons as combat and do arenas as subtlety on my rogue. Why is a game that offers a wide variety of content gatekeeping me from experiencing it all.

you can raid as subtlety, problem solved, raids are a joke. join a guild.

[Abombination-kurinnaxx]

@Gilsgun-herod

you go to your class trainer to respec and its 50 gold?

You pay it from the 10,000 gold you have because you play the game?

The more fun option is make an Alt with the different spec, boom more content.

[Rodiart-loatheb]

I would pay 50g per day to stop new post about dual spec. That cheap it is.

[Sarevok-pagle]

@Fatflufybird-arugal

What about those of us who have a job + wife/husband + kids. Do we still need to grind gold for hours each week to respec just to engage with the content?

Is this sarcasm?

[Latherfal-nordrassil (Latherfal)]

I just have to find some place that zzz’s exist, and I’m good.

[Frosto-faerlina]

@Gilsgun-herod

you go to your class trainer to respec and its 50 gold?

You spend 50g.

[Frosto-faerlina]

@Fatflufybird-arugal

What about those of us who have a job + wife/husband + kids. Do we still need to grind gold for hours each week to respec just to engage with the content?

No. You literally do not need to play this game. …

obviously…

[Donn-benediction]

If you play TBC for a year, and you want to switch your spec only once a week, lets say after raid so you can do arena the rest of the week its still going to cost you over 2500 gold a year. This amount is not insane or undoable by any means, but it’s an annoying and a frustrating sum to give for what is clearly just bad game design. And they know this because they gave us dual spec in wrath to save us from this headache. TBC classic is already different from it’s original installment in so many ways. The only groups that would be upset over dual spec in TBC are the endangered species of no change andys and the petty whales in this thread that are botters and gold buyers.

[Donn-benediction]

Would you submit your account to a full investigation to see if you have bought gold or botted to make gold?

[Donn-benediction]

You are right choices do matter in those games and that’s what make a lot of RPGs fun, but those are single player RPGs and its almost unheard of for games that have a PvP ladder to gatekeep things like talents.

[Zuggerino-earthfury]

Yeah lemme go ahead and do that to prove to some forum random that I don’t buy gold because I think 50g is chump change

[Malicie-grobbulus]

it’s reduced by 5g every month

it’s way easier to make gold in tbc so 50g shouldn’t be that much of a problem tbh.

[Calenwyr-yojamba]

My biggest concern of dual spec is it invalidates alot of the niche builds like paladin 40/21/0 (aoe farm build which can primary heal alot of content) you would just run deep holy for raid heals and prot/ret for farming. It removes alot of player agency to choose to be 90% optimal for a range of content over 100% for 1 type. This is one of the flaws retail also has there is no point picking anything less than 100% if you can change freely.

[Reineir-mankrik]

Oh look, another thought provoking, and completely original thread. Thank you op for opening my eyes.