Switching Specs: Is It Worth It?
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Valaar on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 33 Comments Tags: Paladin, Tanks, Valaar, World of Warcraft, dual spec, healer, holy, patch 3.1, protection, wow
Valaar on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 33 Comments Tags: Paladin, Tanks, Valaar, World of Warcraft, dual spec, healer, holy, patch 3.1, protection, wow 
I'd like to talk about the Paladin class, but more specifically about the idea of dual speccing. I started WoW on the day it was released, and up until about six months ago, I was a retribution pally. I stuck to my guns and took all the punishment Blizzard gave us, but when they supposedly fixed us and gave us amazing DPS only to take it away a month later I finally had enough. It was then I decided to read up on tanking. I spent weeks researching the spec and trying out different talent specs to get the most out of my paladin. Currently I've become the Main Tank for my guild on Kargath, and we are kicking Naxx’s butt right now. A few weeks ago I got to a point where I was stuck, though. I've obtained every upgrade I possibly can for my tank spec outside of Naxx. So I asked myself, what do I do now?I'm still running heroics and collecting badges for more gear, and during recent Naxx trips plate healing gear has been dropping left and right. Since nobody else wants it, I've started collecting it all. Now I'm spending those badges from heroics on healing gear. So aside from my tank gear I now have an epic healing set that's got my skills as follows: 2005 Bonus Healing, 26% Crit rating, 388 mana regen and a 17K+ mana pool, all unbuffed.
Now that I have the gear, I've changed specs many times to work on my healing skills simply because I find it fun. The problem is I've done it so many times I'm capped at 50g per talent point reset. Personally I find this to be stupid and annoying. I know there are several things in the game that act as money sinks (Haris Pilton's bag for instance) but respeccing?
Come 3.1, Blizzard is going to give us "Dual Specs" that will be 1000g and it will even change our glyphs and action bars. Great, but without an ETA on the horizon why don't they just remove the fee to reset for now? Why are players penalized for wanting to try something new? I've even had to pay twice simply because I've put a talent point in the wrong spot once and had to reset (which they addressed finally). What's worse is if I'm specced as a tank and my guild needs a healer, it costs me 100g to go holy and then back to protection.
Anyway, I'm curious to see how many more people are out there that play an active role in two specs in their guild and if they are tired of the fees. Do you think that while we wait for the dual spec feature, we should get the option to change for free or are you ok with paying 50g per switch till 3.1 and then paying another 1000g to have the option?
Reader Comments (33)
Although the Duel Speccing won't be effecting any of us hunters, you have to remember that the gear sets thing they are implemented will be costing money(the one that lets you switch gear on the fly, opening up bag space), as well as the ability for hunters to summon pets from the stables. Both being 1000g a piece.
This expansion is becoming one big money sink. Knowing I have to save that much more money for an Alt I'll ever want to level up makes me not want to level one that much more. I've been eyeing the Pally class for some time now but now I don't know if I want to spend the money to make is as usable as it could be. Hmmmm Decisions.
dont fucking type First!
ou know, I've never really thought of that beforehand, but yea, it makes alot of sense that they should remove it. I mean I'm not activily playing two roles or anything, but still makes sense.
I am going to buy the Dual Spec as soon i can. Since i am enhance shammy ( Like Juggy ;D) I am often asked to respec healer for smaller raids and stuff. And the constant change of glyphs and actionbars is annóying. So i am looking forward to it :)
You will run into the same problem healing... except you are out of the fight and your gear repair bill will be less on non wipe runs. while healing.... so IMO its pointless to switch back and forth.. now when 3.1 releases my prot pally will ethere have a 2nd spec for healing or... have a 2nd spec for PVP.. it all depends on what the guild needs and if i am still with the guild
I love my shaman, who was my very first toon. I leveled her all the way to 54 before having it explained to me that "no, you really shouldn't have the talents all over the place." From thereon, I was a full-blooded enhancement nightmare against my PvE foes. (Don't mention PvP, though. : / )
But then something happened. See, I was guildless at 70 for awhile until I joined up with another guild. I got to 80 when WotLK came out and I was having fun as dps. Sadly, my guild was frequently in need of a healer for stuff and I was the one hit up most with "hey, could you heal?" My respec cost zoomed up from 5g to the cap in no time. That was when I had to get realistic about what I wanted and what the guild needed. Been stuck as resto ever since then.
So I'm rather mixed about the dual-specing concept. I agree that it shouldn't be cheap, but at the same time... Eh, I guess it matters little if I have a slim prospect of getting into a pug raid anyway. The dual-spec thing may not concern me, but I'll still be keeping tabs on this matter.
Im a holy/ret pally im currently respeccin twice a day atleast and in total ive spent 5k+ on respecs but the gd thing is ma guild has started paying for it seeing as Im doing it for the guild so they can raid plus they are paying for dualspec when it comes out.
ok I wrote an essay for yall but none would read it so here is the highlights....
Duelspeccing:
max level hybrids: WIN
everything else: FAIL
and the players who are least affected by the changes it makes:
Max Level Raiders
Beacuse they can cope with the current system,there are plenty of other problems that could have been addressed instead ...
Enalagy:
blizzard have pulled a thorn from a man with a broken back !
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